GigaByte is a
peer-reviewed
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open-science
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journal
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published by GigaScience Press since 2020. It focuses on short, focused, data-driven articles describing and sharing open research data sets and software. Using an exclusively
XML-based publishing system that automates the production process to make it simple to change views, languages and embed interactive content, in 2022 it won the
ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing.
In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, like its sister journal ''
GigaScience
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'' it uses its own in-house
disciplinary repository
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:
GigaDB
GigaDB (GigaScience DataBase) is a disciplinary repository launched in 2011 with the aim of ensuring long-term access to massive multidimensional datasets from life science and biomedical science studies. The datasets are diverse and include genom ...
.
The journal is abstracted and indexed by
PubMed
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/PMC/
DOAJ
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The miss ...
and
CNKI
CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure; ) is a private-owned publishing company in China since 2014. It operates databases of academic journals, conference proceedings, newspapers, reference works, and patent documents.
CNKI maintains mono ...
.
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