''GigaScience'' is a

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that was established in 2012. It covers research and large data-sets that result from work in the

biomedical Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

and life sciences. The editor-in-chief is Scott Edmunds. Originally, the journal was co-published by BioMed Central and the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI). In 2016, it left BioMed Central to form a new partnership between the GigaScience Press department of BGI and Oxford University Press. In 2018, ''GigaScience'' won the Association of American Publishers'

PROSE Award The PROSE Awards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division. Presented since 1976, the awards annually recognize distinguished prof ...

for Innovation in journal publishing in the multidisciplinary category.

GigaDB and GigaGalaxy

In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, ''GigaScience'' has built and integrated its own disciplinary repository: GigaDB. The journal also provides a

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-based platform to analyze data, ''GigaGalaxy''. The journal has tried to promote the use of Galaxy pipelines as publishable research outputs through its 'Galaxy Series' of articles.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/ MEDLINE/ PubMed, the

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CAS Cas may refer to: * Caș, a type of cheese made in Romania * ' (1886–) Czech magazine associated with Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk * '' Čas'' (19 April 1945–February 1948), the official, daily newspaper of the Democratic Party of Slovakia * ''CA ...

CNKI CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure; ) is a private-owned publishing company in China since 2014. CNKI maintains high annual subscription fees due to its ''de facto'' monopoly status on journal search in China. Because its subscription ...

, EMBASE and Scopus. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.658.

References

External links

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Journal site
at BioMed Central
GigaGalaxy
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