--- author: - contributor_roles: [] family: Edmunds given: Scott url: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6444-1436 blog: authors: null community_id: 52db0518-e228-4260-8c54-c4e323b2569d created: 1675555200 current_feed_url: null description: Data driven blogging from the GigaScience editors doi: https://doi.org/10.59350/gigablog favicon: https://rogue-scholar.org/api/communities/52db0518-e228-4260-8c54-c4e323b2569d/logo feed_format: application/atom+xml feed_url: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/feed/atom/ filter: null generator: Other home_page_url: https://gigasciencejournal.com/blog issn: null language: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode prefix: '10.59350' relative_url: null secure: false slug: gigablog status: archived subfield: '1311' title: GigaBlog updated: null use_api: null container: GigaBlog date: '2011-10-21T00:00:00+00:00' date_updated: '2025-12-06T10:49:23+00:00' guid: http://finaloriginalblogs.dev/gigablog/2011/10/21/gigadata-news-macaque-dois-published-in-nature-biotechnology/ identifier: https://doi.org/10.59350/9cw7c-jdz05 image: http://www.genome.gov/Images/press_photos/lowres/20012-72.jpg images: - src: http://www.genome.gov/Images/press_photos/lowres/20012-72.jpg issn: null keywords: - Publishing - Data Citation - Data Publication - DataCite - DOI lang: en license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode reference: - id: https://doi.org/10.5524/100002 unstructured: Yan, G., Zhang, G., Fang, X., Zhang, Y., Li, C., Ling, F., Cooper, D. N., Li, Q., Li, Y., van Gool, A. J., Du, H., Chen, J., Chen, R., Zhang, P., Huang, Z., Thompson, J. R., Meng, Y., Bai, Y., Wang, J., … Wang, J. (2011). Genomic data from the Chinese Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta lasiota). [Data set]. GigaScience. - id: https://doi.org/10.5524/100003 unstructured: Yan, G., Zhang, G., Fang, X., Zhang, Y., Li, C., Ling, F., Cooper, D. N., Li, Q., Li, Y., van Gool, A. J., Du, H., Chen, J., Chen, R., Zhang, P., Huang, Z., Thompson, J. R., Meng, Y., Bai, Y., Wang, J., … Wang, J. (2011). Genomic data from the crab-eating macaque/cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis). [Data set]. GigaScience. - id: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigadata-news-macaque-dois-published-in-nature-biotechnology/ unstructured: Unknown title - id: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog unstructured: Unknown title rid: p4b8m-cqt13 rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode summary: This week marks another success for the fledgling practice of data citation, with two datasets from our GigaScience database published in Nature Biotechnology . The genomes sequenced by our colleagues at the BGI for the Cynomolgus and Chinese rhesus macaques were initially released DOIs at our launch in July, and were amongst the first (at the time) unpublished genomes released in this way. title: 'GigaData news: Macaque DOIs published in Nature Biotechnology' url: https://wayback.archive-it.org/22098/2025-05-01T17:13:42Z/http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigadata-news-macaque-dois-published-in-nature-biotechnology version: v1 --- ![](http://www.genome.gov/Images/press_photos/lowres/20012-72.jpg){style="width: 149px; height: 167px;" decoding="async" data-align="left" data-border="0" data-hspace="5" data-vspace="2"}This week marks another success for the fledgling practice of data citation, with two datasets from our [*GigaScience*](http://www.gigasciencejournal.com "GigaScience homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} [database](http://gigadb.org "GigaScience G10K database"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} [published](http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.1992.html "NatureBiotech paper"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in *Nature Biotechnology*. The genomes sequenced by our colleagues at the [BGI](http://www.bgisequence.com/ "BGI homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} for the Cynomolgus and Chinese rhesus macaques were initially [released](http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/presscenter/pressreleases?pr=20110706 "GigaData press release"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} [DOIs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier) at our [launch](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2011/10/gigascience_giga_database_and_now "Launch blog"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in July, and were amongst the first (at the time) unpublished genomes released in this way. Data citation is an important [concept](http://datacite.org/whycitedata "Why cite data?"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, allowing data producers to obtain an early form of credit for releasing their work, speeding up research by encouraging early data release, and allowing the impact and reuse of data to be tracked. After the recent [success](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2011/10/notes_from_an_e_coli "E coli BGI data release"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} of our first dataset being [published](http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1107643? "BGI NEJM paper"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in the [*New England of Medicine*](http://www.nejm.org/ "NEJM homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} (the genome of the recent [outbreak](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak "Outbreak E. coli wikipedia"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} strain of *E. coli* O104:H4), this is the first time one of our data DOIs has been accepted in a [Nature](http://www.nature.com/ "NPG website"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} journal. For data citation to work the assistance of journals is key, and [*Nature Biotechnology*](http://www.nature.com/nbt/index.html "Nature Biotech"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} has been particularly helpful in promoting the scheme, arguing in an [editorial](http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n7/full/nbt0709-579.html "Nature Biotech Credit where credit is overdue paper"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} as far back as 2009 that novel forms of credit for data producers were needed, and suggesting DOIs as an ideal solution for this. The [Datacite](http://datacite.org/ "Datacite"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} consortium was set up in late 2010 to do exactly that, and we would like to thank them and the [British Library](http://www.bl.uk/datasets "BL datasets"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} for their help in issuing these DOIs. Macaque species are the most commonly used non-human primate models in medical research, and their genomes will hopefully aid human [disease research](http://en.genomics.cn/navigation/show_news.action?newsContent.id=8937 "BGI write-up of study")  and drug discovery. Looking at orthologues of human druggable protein domains in these species is aiding the potential therapeutic exploitation of their  \'druggable genome\', and has [already lead](http://en.genomics.cn/navigation/show_news.action?newsContent.id=8929 "Monkey platform") to BGI producing an exome sequencing platform for the species. On top of their genome assemblies, the DOI [landing ](http://climb.genomics.cn/Macaca_fascicularis "Macaca fascicularis")[pages](http://climb.genomics.cn/Macaca_mulatta_lasiota "Macaca mulatta lasiota") include links to functionally annotated and coding sequence sets, as well as a [link](http://macaque.genomics.org.cn/page/species/index.jsp "Monkey browser") to a browser and database. After the release of other datasets  such as the CHO cell line [genome](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100009 "CHO genome"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, we are currently collecting another large batch of datasets to be released, so watch [this space](../../gigablog/ "GigaBlog") for further news and  announcements. ### **References** 1\. Yan, G. *et al. G*enome sequencing and comparison of two nonhuman primate animal models, the cynomolgus and Chinese rhesus macaques. *Nat Biotech*, (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1992 2\. Credit where credit is overdue. *Nat Biotech* **27**, 579 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0709-579 To cite the two datasets please use the following citations:\ 3. Yan, G; Zhang, G; Fang, X; Zhang, Y; Li, C; Ling, F; Cooper, DN; Li, O; Li, Y; van Gool, AJ; Du, H; Chen, J; Chen, R; Zhang, P; Huang, Z; Thompson, JR; Meng, Y; Bai, Y; Wang, J; Zhuo, M; Wang, T; Huang, Y; Wei, L; Li, J; Wang, Z; Hu, H; Le, L; Stenson,  PD; Li, B; Liu, X; Ball, EV; An, N; Huang, Q; Zhang, Y; Fan, W; Zhang, X; Li, Y; Wang, W; Katze, MG; Su, B; Nielsen, R; Yang, H;  Wang, J; Wang, X; Wang, J (2011): Genomic data from the Chinese Rhesus Macaque (*Macaca mulatta lasiota*). *GigaScience*. [doi:10.5524/100002](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100002) 4\. Yan, G; Zhang, G; Fang, X; Zhang, Y; Li, C; Ling, F; Cooper, DN; Li, O; Li, Y; van Gool, AJ; Du, H; Chen, J; Chen, R; Zhang, P; Huang, Z; Thompson, JR; Meng, Y; Bai, Y; Wang, J; Zhuo, M; Wang, T; Huang, Y; Wei, L; Li, J; Wang, Z; Hu, H; Le, L; Stenson, PD; Li, B; Liu, X; Ball, EV; An, N; Huang, Q; Zhang, Y; Fan, W;  Zhang, X; Li, Y; Wang, W; Katze, MG; Su, B; Nielsen, R; Yang, H; Wang, J; Wang, X; Wang, J (2011): Genomic data from the Crab Eating Macaque/Cynomolgus  Monkey (*Macaca fascicularis*). *GigaScience*. [doi:10.5524/100003](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100003) The post [GigaData news: Macaque DOIs published in Nature Biotechnology](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigadata-news-macaque-dois-published-in-nature-biotechnology/){rel="nofollow"} appeared first on [GigaBlog](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog){rel="nofollow"}.