Dear Authors, Readers, Editorial Board Members and Colleagues in the Academic Community, we are delighted to announce that Dr. Xun Xu has officially been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of GigaScience. See the announcement here:

And it’s goodbye from me. Final GigaBlog from outgoing EiC @SCEdmunds on the major changes at GigaScience Press https://t.co/Pc2qUYBMjg

When the President plays fast and loose with “emergency powers,” it’s small businesses like Learning Resources and @hand2mind that pay the price. As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Learning Resources v. Trump, Chairman and CEO Rich Woldenberg sat down with NCLA’s

Happy #PeerReviewWeek: To celebrate we have a proposal in GigaBlog: Why we need a FAIR Principles for Peer Review? https://t.co/etpDxsbQpf #PRW2025

A novel deep learning model for accurate and rapid prediction of IAV subtypes and host source WaveSeekerNet: accurate prediction of influenza A virus subtypes and host source using attention-based deep learning https://t.co/WVEniO52Wg

Supporting biodiversity research in the world's biggest continent. The Return of Asia Nature Challenge #ANC2025 https://t.co/FFXzLl63GZ #AsiaNatureChallenge #CitizenScience

A new #opensource interpretable genomic selection model designed for phenotype prediction. DeepAnnotation: A novel interpretable deep learning–based genomic selection model that integrates comprehensive functional annotations https://t.co/ZHqnujNFAp

Presenting new avenues for white matter abnormality-related classification of heterogeneous MRI data HeteroMRI: Robust white matter abnormality classification across multi-scanner MRI data https://t.co/xZt9ZueOeX

New in our T2T series, and the first published plant (and T2T) genome using CycloneSeq nanopore reads. Telomere-to-telomere African wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) reference genome reveals segmental and structural variation https://t.co/1svDYMXgJP

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Presenting metagenomic data from the analysis of microbial communities in mangrove sediments across Southeast China A holistic genome dataset of bacteria and archaea of mangrove sediments https://t.co/x6ebDXuAad

A new platform for discovering new bioactive peptides and family-specific analogues, accelerating both natural product discovery and evolutionary research. PeptideMiner—neuropeptide discovery across the animal kingdom https://t.co/63jhmR4wiF

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A new GNN+DNN model, which combines molecular graphs and fingerprints through a graph attention network architecture. SynProtX: a large-scale proteomics-based deep learning model for predicting synergistic anticancer drug combinations https://t.co/MLaZwBES1Z

Using AI and DNA Signals to Detect Living Microbes 👉 Read more in our news: https://t.co/5ZzBj0LMf3 A research team at #HelmholtzMunich and @helmholtz_ai, led by Prof. Lara Urban, has demonstrated that artificial intelligence can distinguish between living and dead

Abacus Global Management $ABL Reports Third Quarter 2025 Results Third Quarter 2025 Highlights: • Total revenue for the third quarter grew 124% to $63.0 million, compared to $28.1 million in the prior-year period. The increase was driven by continued growth in Abacus’ Life

Old MacDonald had animal-associated microbiome contamination, E-I-E-I-O Reducing skin microbiome exposure impacts through swine farm biosecurity https://t.co/OwTzF5kwCF

Interesting to see Prof Ma was representing China in the development of the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation https://t.co/1NkE9ZI9Qa

Juncai Ma from CAS presenting on the Global Open Data Platform at the #ISOSC2025 workshop. Previously an author of the Global Catalogue of Microorganisms (GCM 2.0) paper we published https://t.co/xQe7sWu98x

Our EiC representing GigaScience at the #ISOSC2025 meeting in Suzhou

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A new #opensource metabolomics platform dedicated to the selection, integration, and secure sharing of quantitative metabolomics data MetaboSERV—a platform for selecting, exchanging, and visualizing metabolomics data with controlled data access https://t.co/UrcH2j9gA7

New in our T2T series: Telomere-to-telomere chromosome-scale genome assemblies of black and golden koi carp variants support construction of an ancient karyotype of Cypriniformes https://t.co/BxPCzxM0Yb

And read the research in GigaScience here