Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that to tie in with this week's Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Shenzhen, its journal GigaScience is launching a call for submissions to a thematic series of discussion and research from the conference and wider community highlighting best practice in genomics research.
As the 13th meeting of the GSC, the topic this year is 'Genomes to Interactions to Communities to Models' - all areas seen as key to the scope of the journal. The theme of the conference is 'the rise of the megasequencing project.' The theme was part of the rationale for BGI to launch GigaScience with BioMed Central.
With Susanna-Assunta Sansone (co-founder of BioSharing – of which BioMed Central and GigaScience are both members), GigaScience is co-chairing a panel on Policies and Standards for Reproducible Research: from Theory to Practice. It is to be attended by a wide spectrum of stakeholders in the production and handling of data such as editors (including Clare Garvey of Genome Biology), funders, databases and data-producers.
On top of the publication format combining large-scale biological dataset hosting on the GigaDB database, the journal hopes this series can be a forum for discussion that can help further its aims to revolutionise data dissemination, organisation, understanding and use. GigaScience is also taking submissions on cloud computing, software for data handling and research highlighting best practices in data-sharing for the series, as these are all key to open-up research as we enter the era of 'big-data'.
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