Uber, Airbnb, Carsharing – Unternehmen der Sharing Economy boomen. Doch es mehren sich kritische Stimmen – aus vielen Gründen. Dabei ist das Teilen von Ressourcen schon länger üblich und gut für die Wirtschaft, die Umwelt und den Verbraucher. Ein Thema, das Unternehmen, Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Verbraucherschützer und andere Teile der Zivilgesellschaft im Jahr 2015 besonders umgetrieben hat, ist der Boom der sogenannten Sharing Economy.

With advances in sequencing technologies leading to a so-called “data deluge”, the amount of data supporting a biological study is becoming increasingly unwieldy and difficult to make available. These issues have led to a lack of transparency in analyses of sequencing data, resulting in an ever-increasing reproducibility gap.

In a busy summer for meetings, this month we attended and presented at Bio-IT World Asia conference in Singapore. In this era of more globalized biology, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the usually Boston based conference series, with Bio-IT World substituted their usual New England lobster for Chili Crab and heading east.

With the summers conference season over, GigaScience are still keeping mobile, and this week Laurie is taking in “Beyond the Genome”, our BioMed Central stablemates Genome Biology and Genome Medicine meeting in Washington