Scott Edmunds

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*GigaScience Press is pleased to announce GigaByte journal has been
shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 ALPSP Awards for Innovation in
Publishing. The awards recognise and celebrate the best innovators in
professional publishing communities at a time when scholarly publishing
is changing rapidly.*

While our long established *GigaScience* journal has [previously
won](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-prose-award-for-innovation/)
the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Innovation in
Journal Publishing in 2018, this is the first acknowledgement for
*GigaScience*'s much [newer sister journal
*GigaByte*](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigabyte-kickstarts-gigascience-press/).
And with the technological innovation recognised here thanks to the
journal's groundbreaking "pure" XML-first publishing process developed
by [River Valley Technologies](https://rivervalleytechnologies.com/)
that allows rapid, cost effective, and transparent publication of
research. Providing an out-of-the-box solution for researchers to
address the [UNESCO Open Science
Recommendations](https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation)
([see the video](https://youtu.be/TVdKLtRGSYs) showcasing many of these
features).

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Organised by [Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers](https://www.alpsp.org/), the ALPSP is the largest
association of scholarly and professional publishers in the world, with
nearly 300 members in 30 countries. The yearly ALPSP prize is judged by
a wide panel of publishing industry professionals to celebrate any new
development, product, service, launch or project which is both
innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication. Winners
must demonstrate excellence in terms of originality and innovation,
significance and value to the community, utility and long-term
viability.

The seven finalists that have made the shortlist will be showcased to
industry peers on Wednesday 14 September at the [ALPSP 2022
Conference](https://alpsp.cventevents.com/2209AIC-home){target="_blank"
rel="noreferrer noopener"} in Manchester, UK. With the winners being
announced at the ALPSPS Awards Dinner on Thursday 15 September.

Previous winners of this long running award include pioneering Open
Access journals such as *PLOS ONE* and *PeerJ*, and open science
platforms we've been long term fans and users of including
[Publons](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-making-open-peer-review-more-open-qa-with-publons-co-founder-andrew-preston/),
Overleaf and [Code
Ocean](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/data-intensive-software-publishing-sailing-the-code-ocean-qa-with-ruibang-luo/).
We are proud to join the [illustrious
lis](https://www.alpsp.org/Past-Winners)t of shortlisted publishing
innovators, and look forward to presenting and attending the awards.
Read more in [The
Bookseller](https://www.thebookseller.com/news/emerald-and-royal-society-of-chemistry-shortlisted-for-alpsp-innovation-awards),
and watch this space for further updates and news on the ALPSP Awards
and conference.

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Publishing
2022](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/alpsp-awards-finalist/){rel="nofollow"}
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<em>
 GigaScience Press is pleased to announce GigaByte journal has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2022 ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing.
</em>

GigaByte a finalist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022

Hans Zauner

**2018 was yet another eventful year at *GigaScience*. Before most of
the editors and data curators take a few days of well-earned break from
handling Giga-papers and Giga-data, it's time to look back over this
year's highlights -- of which there are many. Prizes were handed out and
received, we travelled to conferences all over the world, and, most
importantly, we published outstanding research and data**.

::: {#attachment_2657 .wp-caption .aligncenter style="width: 533px"}
![All I want for Xmas is
Tegu](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TeguSanta-1024x611.jpg){.wp-image-2657
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sizes="(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px"}

All I want for Christmas is Tegu!
:::

***Gigascience* Prize Track at ICG**

As in the previous year, we invited authors of cutting edge, unpublished
research to have their submission to *GigaScience* considered for our
prize track at BGI's ICG (International Conference on Genomics)
conference in Shenzhen, which was held in October.

We invited the authors of submissions that were accepted for the series
to present their work at the conference, with complimentary registration
and compensation for travel.

This year's winners convinced the jury also because they showed the
value of mining existing datasets for hidden gold: Titus Brown and his
lab presented an [automated pipeline to re-analyze a massive marine
microbial dataset](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy158) from the
Microbial Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP). First author  Lisa
Johnson travelled to ICG to present the work. To learn more about the
study, follow [this link to an "Author
Q&A"](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/icg-prize-winner-lisa-johnson-qa/)
 on GigaBlog. In addition, the authors also published a
[commentary](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy159), proving
further background on the importance of reproducible and re-usable
pipelines.

The associated publications of the other winners of the prize track are
also feeding through to the journal and series page, and you can read
Q&A's with some of the other winners such as [Anil
Thanki](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/aequatus-icg-prize/), and see
their talks in our [GigaTV youtube
channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Xt1XQMEYqhZ002Phrpn6A).

**We won an award!**

![GigaScience Prose
Award](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ProseInnovationAward-300x201.jpeg){.alignright
.wp-image-2385 .size-medium loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300"
height="201"
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sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"}At ICG, we handed out prizes,
but in 2018 we were also at the receiving end of recognition for our
efforts: *GigaScience*, together with our publisher OUP,  won the
[*PROSE Award for Innovation in Journal
Publishing*](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/gigascience-prose-award-for-innovation/)
in the multidisciplinary category, by the Association of American
publishers (AAP).  *GigaScience* and its associated database GigaDB, in
cooperation with services such as
[Protocols.io](https://www.protocols.io/) and [Code
Ocean](https://codeocean.com/), is moving beyond the traditional
research paper, for the sake of reproducibility and open data sharing.
We are doing this because we are convinced this is how research should
be shared in the 21st century, and we're happy that the publishing
professionals at AAP recognized our efforts as a prize-worthy
innovation. You can see a preprint covering the latest technical
advances and updates to our GigaDB platform in [bioRxiv
here](https://doi.org/10.1101/465666).

**ISMB**

As we launched at the ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology)
conference in 2012, every year since we've held our birthday
celebrations at the meeting. This year it was [off to
Chicago](https://www.iscb.org/ismb2018), where thanks to generous
sponsorship from OUP we hosted a 6th birthday party at the Watershed
bar, and much craft beer and GigaPanda cake was consumed by all. Our
lead Biocurator Chris Hunter also [presented a
poster](http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6668678.v6) on the most
recent GigaDB development. You can see the pictures in our [facebook
gallery](https://www.facebook.com/pg/GigaScience/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2133056360040306),
and look forward to our 7th birthday in Basel next year.

**DNA Day: Genomics in the jungle**

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jungle](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/35_Lab_Field-300x225.jpg){.size-medium
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Aaron Pomeratz in his natural environment -- sequencing DNA in the
jungle.
:::

April 25th is DNA day -- commemorating the day when, in 1953, the
structure of DNA was announced. Here in GigaBlog, we celebrated the day
by posting an [author Q&A with Aaron
Pomerantz](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/dnaday2018/), talking
about his experience with DNA sequencing in the field. Rather than
shipping DNA from the field to the lab, he brought a portable DNA
sequencer to the jungle and analyzed his samples right on the spot.
Aaron explained why this is an exciting new option: *"It is a tool to
quickly obtain genetic information that can be used to identify
species/populations, establish geographic distributions, aid with in
situ conservation actions, ex situ breeding programs, and promote
conservation law efforts."*

The [resulting article and
data](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy033) were published in
*GigaScience* and GigaDB, respectively.

**Democratising Data**  
![Chris Democratising
Data](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ChrisA_IDW-300x165.jpg){.alignright
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srcset="http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ChrisA_IDW-300x165.jpg 300w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ChrisA_IDW-768x422.jpg 768w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ChrisA_IDW-1024x563.jpg 1024w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ChrisA_IDW.jpg 1478w"
sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px"}In November, *Gigascience*
organized a session on "Democratising Data Publishing: A Global
Perspective" at the International Data Week conference in Gaborone,
Botswana. As our executive editor Scott Edmunds reported [here on
GigaBlog](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/democratising-data-aocc/),
"*it was refreshing to reach a critical mass of diverse voices that were
not the usual subjects from the well funded European and North American
institutions, and everyone who made it to Botswana felt it was a
historic and eye opening meeting because of it.*" Speakers at the track
included *GigaScience* Data Scientist Chris Armit (pictured), who
focused on many of our agricultural data projects ([slides
here](https://www.slideshare.net/GigaScience/chris-armit-at-idw2018-democratising-data-publishing-a-global-perspective))
and our Editorial Board Member Susanna Sansone, who talked talked about
FAIRsharing ([see
slides](https://www.slideshare.net/SusannaSansone/fairsharing-at-scidatacon-idw-2018)),
among others.

**The African Orphan Crops Consortium bears its first fruits**

 

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The African Orphan Crops Consortium
([AOCC](http://africanorphancrops.org/)) is an international
public--private partnership, co-led by African Union's New Partnership
for Africa's Development (AU-NEPAD Agency), World Agroforestry Centre
(ICRAF), BGI, and University of California, Davis. AOCC is planning to
sequence 101 plants that are so far neglected by scientists, but
contribute to traditional African food supplies. In December we
published the first fruits of this effort: A r[eport on the sequencing,
assembly, and annotation of five genomes of underutilized
plants](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy152). Of course, the
articles are open access and all data is released without restrictions
via NCBI and GigaDB.

There is no shortage of other outstanding examples of Big Data science
published in *Gigascience* during the course of 2018. It's hard to pick
just a few highlights. Here are some of our personal favorites, with
apologies to the authors of the many excellent articles that we can't
cover in this blog:

**The Giardia proteome **

Kevin Tyler  and his team at UEA's Norwich Medical School used
state-of-the-art proteomics to study [how the Giardia parasite can cause
severe symptoms in some
patients](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy150). Kevin explained
[here on
GigaBlog](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/how-giardia-feeds-on-ready-meals-from-the-gut-author-qa-with-kevin-tyler/)
why the work matters: * "When we talk about infectious diseases in the
developed world, there is a focus on viral and bacterial infections.
Parasites are sometimes left out of the conversation because in the
world's wealthier countries they cause few hospital admissions.
World-wide however, protozoan parasites cause the highest burden of
disease"*.

To better understand how the Giardia parasite causes infection, the
authors took an in-depth look at the proteome:

*"Our approach was to identify and quantify all the proteins in the
trophozoites \[activated, feeding stages\] that current detection
technology permits and to compare the abundance of these with what we
found in the media in which we grew them, to look for enrichment in the
media as a signature of actual secretion."*

**Genome of a venomous mammal, the Solenodon**

![](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Taras-Oleksyk-and-Solenodon-image-CC0.png){.aligncenter
.wp-image-2319 loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="581" height="867"
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sizes="(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px"}

Over the years, we published genomes of lots of bizarre organisms, but
the Solenodon is in a league of its own in this respect: not only is it
venomous (very unusual for a mammal), it also displays a number of other
special features, such as a flexible snout with a ball-and-socket joint
and teats which are placed at the rear end of the animal. The [research
by Taras Oleksyk and his
team](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy025) was the inaugural
winner of the *GigaScience* prize at the International Conference on
Genomics in Shenzhen at the end of 2017.

**Genome scale model of a superbug**

Antibiotics expert  Jian Li and his team at Monash University published
[a genome-scale metabolic model of the pathogen *P.
aeruginosa*](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy021), which is the
most complete metabolic reconstruction of this particular pathogen to
date.  It includes 3022 metabolites and 4265 reactions and will help
scientists to explore bacterial responses to antibiotics more easily and
provides a short-cut to time-consuming and costly experimental work (see
also our [blog
post](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/genome-scale-model-of-a-superbug/)).

**Genome of the tegu**

The quality of genome assemblies published in *GigaScience* has been
rising substantially recently, and most of the genome data notes we
consider these days present extremely high ("platinum") quality,
chromosome scale assemblies, using a range of techniques to improve and
polish the result. A prime example for this development is the genome of
the tegu, a charismatic lizard from South America that has taken a step
towards being full-blown warm-blooded (and it's also cherished as an an
exotic pet). The authors of the [*GigaScience*
paper](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy141), Michael Hiller and
his team, used a range of techniques, also including optical mapping,
and rewarded themselves with the most complete assembly of any reptile
genome so far.

For GigaBlog, the authors [explained some of the
challenges](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/tegu-genome-is-the-most-complete-assembly-of-any-reptile-genome/)
they had to overcome: "*We had to integrate different sequencing and
scaffold technologies, which turned out to be difficult since existing
tools often don't work as expected, especially if the input data differs
from what the tool was initially developed for. It took numerous rounds
of trial and error to find a combination of tools that substantially
improved the existing short-read based genome assembly using long-read
sequencing data."*

**A micro X-ray computed tomography dataset of South African hermit
crabs**  
With our innovative publishing model, combining research articles with a
data repository, *GigaScience* is the place to go if you wish to share
large imaging datasets as part of your published research. A [beautiful
example](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/interact-with-the-crabs-in-your-computer-new-gigadb-imaging-widgets/)
for this is the Data Note by Jannes Landschoff and colleagues,
presenting computer tomography 3D-reconstructions of five South African
hermit crab species. The Data Note describes the methods of image
acquisition and provides context for the work, and our repository GigaDB
hosts the virtual 3D specimen and 3D printable versions. We now have
[sketchfab](https://sketchfab.com/GigaDB) and
[thingiverse](https://www.thingiverse.com/GigaScience/about) accounts to
allow interaction with these 3D models, and a platform for the 3D
printing community to discuss and share this work.

We look forward to 2019 and wish all our readers, authors, reviewers and
editorial board members a Happy New Year!

 

The post [Prizes given and received, and other 2018
highlights](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/prizes-given-and-received-and-other-2018-highlights/){rel="nofollow"}
appeared first on
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<strong>
 2018 was yet another eventful year at
 <em>
  GigaScience
 </em>
 . Before most of the editors and data curators take a few days of well-earned break from handling Giga-papers and Giga-data, it’s time to look back over this year’s highlights – of which there are many.
</strong>

Prizes given and received, and other 2018 highlights

![GigaScience Prose
Award](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ProseInnovationAward.jpeg){.aligncenter
.size-full .wp-image-2385 loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="828"
height="556"
srcset="http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ProseInnovationAward.jpeg 828w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ProseInnovationAward-300x201.jpeg 300w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ProseInnovationAward-768x516.jpeg 768w"
sizes="(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px"}We at *GigaScience* are pleased
to have won the 2018 the [PROSE Award for
Innovation](https://proseawards.com/winners/) in Journal Publishing in
the multidisciplinary category, as innovation has been a key element in
our goal to change how scientific publishing is done. The [Association
of American Publishers (AAP)](https://publishers.org/) has been giving
awards for 42 years to recognize distinguished professional and
scholarly books, reference works, journals. Originally focused on
professional and scholarly print material, in recent years, the awards
have expanded to include electronic content, and the innovation in
scholarly publishing category is another new addition. for the digital
era.

In applying for this award, it gave us the opportunity to consider the
variety of things we have worked on [since our
launch](https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-217X-1-1) and present to our
ongoing effort to take full advantage of the latest digital technologies
in order to push scientific publishing beyond the stagnant PDF of a
published article. To do this we have developed or used available
platforms to make all components of the research process available to
the reader. Instead of focusing on [subjective
impact](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/jif_problems/), we have set
goals to make scientific publishing more
[reproducible](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/qa-on-dynamic-documents),
[transparent](https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/07/23/ultra-open-peer-review/),
discoverable, and reusable.

![Infographic
PROSEaward](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gigascience_infographic-294x300.jpeg){.size-medium
.wp-image-2387 .alignright loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="294"
height="300"
srcset="http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gigascience_infographic-294x300.jpeg 294w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gigascience_infographic-768x783.jpeg 768w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gigascience_infographic-1004x1024.jpeg 1004w, http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/gigascience_infographic.jpeg 1536w"
sizes="(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px"}The main characteristic of a
*GigaScience* article is that it goes beyond the narrative to include
all the '[research
objects](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00799-016-0174-6)'
associated with the research: data, software, source code, workflows,
containers, virtual machines, and more. Since our launch 6 years ago,
we've created a publishing workflow that connects articles to an
in-house database,
[*Giga*DB](https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-217X-1-11),
which hosts all the data associated with the research described in the
article: something unique to most other journals. Importantly, given
limitations in the availability of publicly available databases that can
host a variety of data of exceedingly large size, *Giga*DB hosts data of
any format, in [interactive
forms](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/interact-with-the-crabs-in-your-computer-new-gigadb-imaging-widgets/),
and without size restrictions, including some that are [terabytes in
size](http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100034). We also highlighted that we
built *Giga*DB with the goal of making the data itself a published,
persistent, [citable
object](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/having-a-finger-on-the-pulse-of-data-citation/),
by giving datasets a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). More, we noted
that having a citable DOI allows the data and other research objects
---unlike a stagnant PDF narrative--- to be versioned and modified, with
DOIs connecting each.

Since our launch nearly 6 years ago, we have continued to develop our
platform, or have integrated the latest open platforms, such as
[Protocols.io](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/reproducible-research-resources-researching-parasites/)
and [Code
Ocean](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/data-intensive-software-publishing-sailing-the-code-ocean-qa-with-ruibang-luo/),
into our system to publish a steadily increasing number of research
objects. Another 'object', that is not part of the research process, but
that we also include with our articles is the [content of all the peer
reviews](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/opening-peer-review-our-new-paper-on-soapdenovo2-shows-how-it-works/).
We require that our reviews be open and include the reviewer names, and
that these are made available with the publication of the paper. While
peer-reviews are not a part of the research itself, they are a scholarly
addition to the publishing process should be included as part of the
record of the publication, providing both transparency and additional
reference concerning the content of the article. And by [giving the
reports
DOIs](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/peerrevwk15-news-crediting-amazing-reviewers-dois/)
allowing the reviewers to also get credit for their hard work.

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The GigaScience team (as many as we could find in one place)
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Since the beginning, our push toward transparency carries with it a
requirement for authors to go beyond the narrative and make all of their
supporting research openly available. We noted to the awards committee
that, even with our multiple hosting platforms, having authors do this
is a tremendous burden: they are already overwhelmed with just their
day-to-day (and often night-to-night). Given this, the journal not only
includes the standard editorial team, but we have added biocurators,
data editors, data scientists, and developers who aid the authors in
organizing and sharing their research. And this award acknowledges and
credits the hard work and efforts of all of [the
team](https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/pages/Editorial_Board).

While the team are quite proud to have been recognized with the PROSE
Award for Innovation, we continue to look to the future to identify
means to adapt, include, and embrace new technologies to achieve an
open, dynamic, real-time publishing process.

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We at
<em>
 GigaScience
</em>
are pleased to have won the 2018 the PROSE Award for Innovation in Journal Publishing in the multidisciplinary category, as innovation has been a key element in our goal to change how scientific publishing is done. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has been giving awards for 42 years to recognize distinguished professional and scholarly books, reference works, journals.

Rogue Scholar Beiträge

GigaByte a finalist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2022

Prizes given and received, and other 2018 highlights

GigaScience Wins 2018 PROSE Award for Innovation in Publishing