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summary: After the launch of the <em> GigScience </em> website last week, and a call
  for papers this week, it's now time to start&nbsp; meeting and talking with potential
  authors. After a busy batch of conferences hosted by the BGI, including the&nbsp;
  first meeting of the Earth Microbiome Project (see the slides and video of our talk)
  and last weeks Bio-IT APAC
title: GigaScience on the road…
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.size-full .wp-image-2796 decoding="async" width="240"
height="159"}After the
[launch](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2011/07/gigascience_giga_database_and_now "launch")
of the
*[GigScience](http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/ "GigaScience journal")*
website last week, and a call for papers this week, it\'s now time to
start  meeting and talking with potential authors. After a busy batch of
conferences hosted by the BGI, including the  first meeting of the
[Earth Microbiome Project](http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/ "EMP") (see
the
[slides](http://www.slideshare.net/GigaScience/scott-edmunds-data-dessemination-difficulties-data-citation-dois-and-gigascience "EMP slides")
and [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlYFa83aCWA "EMP video") of
our talk) and last weeks [Bio-IT
APAC](http://www.genomics.cn/en/news_show.php?type=show&id=678 "Bio-IT meeting"){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"}  meeting, our editors are now heading out on the road
with a busy summer season of conferences lined up. Follow their updates
and coverage of the meetings on the
[*GigaScience*](http://twitter.com/gigascience "@gigascience") and
[BGI_Events](http://twitter.com/BGI_Events "@BGI_Events"){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} twitter pages, and feel free to arrange a chat about
your work and the journal and database.

This week, *GigaScience* editor Scott Edmunds will be talking to the
Computational Biology community at the
[ISMB/ECCB](http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2011 "ISMB"){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} meeting in Vienna. Feel free to track him down via the
[BioMed Central
booth](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2011/07/join_biomed_central_at_ismb "BMC at ISMB"){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} (#11). Alexandra Basford will also be exploring big data
issues in Neuroscience at
[IBRO](http://www.ibro2011.org/site/home.asp "IBRO"){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} in Florence, followed by
[CNS\*2011](http://www.cnsorg.org/2011/ "CNS*2011"){target="_blank"
rel="noopener"} in Stockholm. Hope to see many of you there!

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