--- 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: '2012-02-27T00:00:00+00:00' date_updated: '2025-12-06T10:48:58+00:00' guid: http://finaloriginalblogs.dev/gigablog/2012/02/27/follow-us-on-everything/ identifier: https://doi.org/10.59350/secev-v2c93 image: http://meeting.sciencenet.cn/upload/file/2011121395013625.jpg images: - alt: GSC/BGI logo src: http://meeting.sciencenet.cn/upload/file/2011121395013625.jpg issn: null keywords: - Publishing - Facebook - GSC13 - Social Media - Standards lang: en license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode rid: bxjn6-c3c32 rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode summary: To tie in with this week's Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) meeting in Shenzhen, 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 key to the scope of the journal. title: Follow us (on everything) url: https://wayback.archive-it.org/22098/2025-05-01T17:13:42Z/http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/follow-us-on-everything version: v1 --- ![GSC/BGI logo](http://meeting.sciencenet.cn/upload/file/2011121395013625.jpg){style="width: 320px; height: 134px;" decoding="async" data-align="left" data-border="0" data-hspace="2" data-vspace="3"}To tie in with this week\'s Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) [meeting](http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13 "GSC13 program"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} in Shenzhen, [*GigaScience*](http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/ "GigaScience homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} is launching a call for submissions to a thematic series of discussion and research [](#_msocom_1){#_anchor_1 .msocomanchor} from the conference and wider community highlighting best practice in genomics research. As the 13th meeting of the [GSC](http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/Main_Page "GSC homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, the topic this year is \"Genomes to Interactions to Communities to Models\" -- all areas key to the scope of the journal. As the conference is hosted by [BGI Shenzhen](http://en.genomics.cn/navigation/index.action "BGI homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, the world\'s largest Genomics Organization, the overarching theme this year: \"*the rise of the megasequencing project*\", was part of the rationale for BGI to [launch](_wp_link_placeholder){wplink-edit="true"} *GigaScience* with BioMed Central. With Susanna-Assunta Sansone (co-founder of [BioSharing](http://www.biosharing.org/ "Biosharing homepage"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} -- of which *BioMed Central*and *GigaScience* are both [members](blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/bmc_research_notes_and_biosharing "BMC and Biosharing"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, *GigaScience* is co-chairing a panel on [Policies and Standards for Reproducible Research: from Theory to Practice](http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13#15:30-17:30_Policies_and_Standards_for_Reproducible_Research:_from_Theory_to_Practice "GSC reproducible research"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, attended by a wide-spectrum of stakeholders in the production and handling of data such as editors (including Clare Garvey of [*Genome Biology*](http://genomebiology.com/ "Genome Biology"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}), funders, databases and data-producers. On top of the novel publication format combining large-scale biological dataset hosting on the [GigaDB](http://gigadb.org/) database, *GigaScience* journal hopes this series can be a forum for discussion that can help further its aims to revolutionize data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use. *GigaScience* is also taking submissions on [cloud  computing](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2012/03/beyond_the_genome_taking_gigascience "GigaScience cloud computing submissions"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, software for data handling, and research highlighting best practices in use of standards and data-sharing for the series, as these are all key to open-up research as we enter the era of \"big-data\". BGI is generously [covering](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2012/03/papers_papers_papers "papers, papers, papers"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} the open-access [article-processing charges](http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/apcfaq "APC FAQ"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} for the journal\'s first year, so please contact us at if you have related work you would like to submit to this series or journal, or submit a manuscript [here](http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/manuscript "submission system"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. Follow the conference on Twitter at [@gigascience](http://twitter.com/gigascience "@GigaScience"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} and the [\#gsc13](https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23gsc13 "#gsc13"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"} hashtag. Slides will be made available from [slideshare](http://www.slideshare.net/gigascience "GigaScience on Slideshare"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, [GigaBlog](http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog// "GigaBlog"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, and the conference [wiki](http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13 "GSC13 wiki"){target="_blank" rel="noopener"}. The post [Follow us (on everything)](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/follow-us-on-everything/){rel="nofollow"} appeared first on [GigaBlog](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog){rel="nofollow"}.