GigaScience
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GigaScience is a scientific journal that began publishing peer reviewed scientific articles in 2011. The journal specializes in presenting research and large data-sets that result from work in the biomedical and life sciences.[1]The journal has a strong commitment to open data and open access, allowing readers to access data referenced in each journal through its Giga DB. All of the data in this database is referenced through a Digital object identifier (DOI), an identifier which provides a constant reference to the data from each of the published articles. GigaScience also provides a Galaxy-based platform to analyze the data, GigaGalaxy.
Editorial Team [2]
| Editor in Chief | Laurie Goodman PhD |
| Executive Editor | Scott Edmunds PhD |
| Editor | Nicole Nogoy PhD |
| Lead Data Manager | Peter Li PhD |
| Lead Biocurator | Chris Hunter PhD |
| Data Architect | Xiao Si Zhe |
| Journal Development Manager | Sam Rose |
| Journal Development Editor | Joseph Hasan |
The team is composed of individuals from the USA, UK and China. The Editor in Chief Laurie Goodman is former editor of Genome Research at Cold Spring Harbor.[3] The Executive Editor Scott Edmunds was a Senior Editor at BioMed Central, GigaScience's current publisher.
References
- ^ "Big Data, BGI and GigaScience - Bio-IT World". Retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ^ "GigaScience". gigascience.biomedcentral.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ^ "Laurie Goodman". RDA. Retrieved 2016-07-11.