GigaScience

*GigaScience*
Discipline	Life sciences
Language	English
Edited by	Scott Edmunds
Publication details
History	2012-present
Publisher	Oxford University Press and the Beijing Genomics Institute
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Impact factor	11.8 (2023)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	GigaScience
Indexing;
CODEN	GIGABJ
ISSN	2047-217X;
LCCN	2013243152
OCLC no.	835660742
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access;

GigaScience is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 2012.^[1] It covers research and large data-sets that result from work in the biomedical and life sciences.^[2] The editor-in-chief is Scott Edmunds. Originally, the journal was co-published by BioMed Central and the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI).^[3] In 2016, it left BioMed Central to form a new partnership between the GigaScience Press department of BGI and Oxford University Press.^[4] In 2018, GigaScience won the Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for Innovation in journal publishing in the multidisciplinary category.^[5]

GigaDB and GigaGalaxy

In order to host the large data-sets the journal covers, GigaScience has built and integrated its own disciplinary repository: GigaDB.^[6] The journal also provides a Galaxy-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.^[7]