Turtley cool usage of @nanopore sequencing to simultaneously generate genomic and epigenomic resources simultaneously. Chromosome-level genome assembly and methylome profile yield insights for the conservation of endangered loggerhead sea turtles

Combining genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, to characterize the main toxins of this medically important snake species. Chromosome-level reference genome for the medically important Arabian horned viper (Cerastes gasperettii)

A new secure cloud-based data platform that enables data storage and access management for clinical data acquired from health systems. Health Data Nexus: an open data platform for AI research and education in medicine

New from @jeromekelleher group aiding the analysis large-scale genetic variation data directly from cloud-based object stores. Analysis-ready VCF at Biobank scale using Zarr

Whopping (21.91 Gb) new @PacBio / Hi-C reference of the Masson pine. Chromosome-level genome assembly of Pinus massoniana provides insights into conifer adaptive evolution

Useful #101s from the @EBPgenome for those involved in biodiverse reference genome creation. Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation

An automated projection pursuit clustering workflow to reveal noteworthy structures in high-dimensional data. Lifting the curse from high-dimensional data: automated projection pursuit clustering for a variety of biological data modalities

Interesting talks at @HKUniversity today on The Evolving Ethics of AI in Biomedicine. Rebecca Weintraub from Harvard starting things off with an overview of the subject

The @GarmireGroup on maternal-obesity-associated epigenetic markers. Multiomics analysis of umbilical cord hematopoietic stem cells from a multiethnic cohort of Hawaii reveals intergenerational effects of maternal prepregnancy obesity and risks for cancers

Elucidating the succession and assembly of the gut microbiota in peripartum dairy cows. Deterministic succession patterns in the rumen and fecal microbiome associate with host metabolic shifts in peripartum dairy cattle

New in our youtube channel, Michael Fire and Esti Yeger-Lotem presented a webinar on a new algorithm uncovering key proteins in human disease

A new #epigenomic method developed for detecting ASm6A events using MeRIP-seq data. M6Allele: a toolkit for detection of allele-specific RNA N6-methyladenosine modifications

There is still time to register for the 25th Genomic Standards Consortium @genomestandards meeting in Cambridge #GSC25

New resources for richer KG metadata and improved Semantic Web services. A large collection of bioinformatics question–query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications

GigaScience Press is proud to be a winner at the inaugural @CrossrefOrg Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness 🏅🎉.

Was great to visit and talk at a "meet the editors" event at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University Thailand. Thanks to GigaScience author Sakda Khoomrung for helping set the event up

Help @makedatacount, join the @kaggle "Finding Data References" competition, and win fame and fortune (well, a $100,000 USD prize) #DataCitation

High quality (Hi-C/@nanopore) assemblies for several Ormosia (horse-eye bean) genomes. Chromosome-scale assemblies of three Ormosia species: repetitive sequences distribution and structural rearrangement

RT @eugeniecyen: Great to see this published in @GigaScience ! Using @oxfordnanopore , we generated genome and methylome resources simultan….

A new method for classification of bacteria and phage genomes extracted from metagenomic data. HVSeeker: a deep-learning-based method for identification of host and viral DNA sequences