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**Reaching new highs in *Cannabis sativa* Omics** 
There is a growing interest in Cannabis (*Cannabis sativa*) research,
and recent changes in regulations have spurred numerous genomic studies
of this once-prohibited plant. Industrial hemp and medical marijuana are
now global multibillion-dollar industries, but due to its widespread
prohibition in the 20th and early 21st century it has missed out on many
technological advances in molecular breeding that have greatly benefited
the improvement of traditional crops. A wealth of sequencing data has
started to be generated (including [this high-quality medicinal cannabis
reference](https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.10) published in
*GigaByte*) but there is a need for genomics and bioinformatics portals
to assist the access and analysis of the growing amounts of genotyping
data from diverse accessions. These platforms aiding less-bioinformatics
savvy plant breeders through the discovery of alleles for important
traits, but have currently been absent for cannabis.

The ***I****nternational **C**annabis **G**enome **R**esearch
**C**onsortium* (ICGRC) has taken up the task of providing an
authoritative source of rigorous and peer-reviewed scientific
information relating to *Cannabis* genetics, genomics and phenotyping.
Just out in *GigaByte* are new papers presenting two of these outputs:
the [CannSeek database](https://snp.icgrc.info/cannseek/) bringing
together the many genomics datasets; and a community-driven [ICGRC
bioinformatics platform](https://icgrc.info/) to facilitate Cannabis
multi-omics research. The papers promoting these resources, providing
details on how to use them, and most importantly providing insight into
how they were put together. Including
[protocols](https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.n2bvj3nz5lk5/v3)
(handily hosted in our [favourite protocols.io
platform](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/reproducible-research-resources-researching-parasites/))
providing detailed information for others to set up similar platforms,
especially for crops like Cannabis where only sequence datasets are
readily available.

**Budding new forms of Science Communication** 
*GigaByte* has tried to make this information as accessible as possible
with embedded protocols and interactive figures (check out ![Animated
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9](https://gigabytejournal.com/articles/135/assets/figure-9.html) of the
[CannSeek paper](https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.135)), but to provide
even more insight we are teaming up with [Cassyni Science Communication
Seminars](https://cassyni.com/) to host an online seminar with the
authors of these papers. Providing an opportunity to get firsthand
insight from the authors on why these platforms are important, how you
can use them, and the technical details on how they were developed. Also
providing an opportunity to ask questions to them directly, both during
the live talk, and asynchronously before and after the talk using
 Cassyni's Q&A functionality. We've [talked
previously](http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/birthday-at-ismb2022/) of
our aims to think and act wider in Open Science, our next [10-year
goal](https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac067) to better address the
[UNESCO Open Science Recommendation](https://doi.org/10.54677/MNMH8546).
Particularly the key pillars of "Open Engagement of Societal Actors" and
"Open Dialogue with other Knowledge systems" where we need to improve
the inclusiveness and accessibility of our research by communicating it
to a much wider audience.

With these appeals for wider dialogue in science we've experimented with
video abstracts in [our GigaTV youtube
channel](https://www.youtube.com/@GigaScienceJournal/),  and taking this
a step further we've now teamed up with [Cassyni](https://cassyni.com/),
a platform that helps academics discover and disseminate scholarly
research through more discursive and interactive virtual seminars.
Helping simplify the process of scheduling and running academic
seminars, and publishing all the resulting talks with a DOI to make them
citeable and part of the world's largest freely accessible and fully
searchable research seminar library.

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Join us on 24^th^ October at 10pm AEDT/12 noon BST/1pm CEST/7am ET for
t[his first seminar](https://cassyni.com/events/6ttAf8cL1ruzkWZznh5Xed),
or watch the recording of the talk afterwards here and on our [Cassyni
page](https://cassyni.com/events/6ttAf8cL1ruzkWZznh5Xed). [First author
Locedie Mansueto from ]{.ant-typography .ant-typography-ellipsis
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University in Australia will be presenting on both of these papers, and
then participate in a Q&A to answer any questions on how to use and
reproduce these resources. ]{.ant-typography .ant-typography-ellipsis
.ant-typography-ellipsis-single-line .css-1ugl0ze}Follow the
[Gigascience Press Seminar Series
page](https://cassyni.com/s/gigascience-press) for news on future
seminars and talks.

 

#### References

Braich S et al.,  A new and improved genome sequence of *Cannabis
sativa*, *Gigabyte*, 2020  <https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.10>

Mansueto L et al., CannSeek? Yes we Can! An open-source single
nucleotide polymorphism database and analysis portal for *Cannabis
sativa*, *GigaByte*, 2024  <https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.135>

Mansueto L et al., Building a community-driven bioinformatics platform
to facilitate *Cannabis sativa* multi-omics research,GigaByte,2024
<https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.137>

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