GigaDB: Helping Users Get Credit for Data By Citation

GigaScience journal is co-published in collaboration between BGI and BioMed Central, to meet the needs of a new generation of biological and biomedical research as it enters the era of “big-data.” GigaDB primarily serves as a repository to host the data and tools associated with GigaScience publications; however, it also includes a subset of datasets (some previously unpublished) produced at the BGI that are not associated with GigaSciencearticles.

Over 50 datasets are already available, totaling ~20TB in size, have already been made available via GigaDB, with preparations underway to release the first 50 bird genomes from the 10,000 genome project (G10K) that are to be published in an avian phylogenetics study. GigaDB will also host data from the Rice 3000 genomes projects, 1000 plant transcriptomes project as well other smaller scale genome projects, and a myriad of non-genomic datasets.

Through our association with DataCite, each dataset in GigaDB is assigned a DOI that can be used as a standard citation for future use of these data in other articles by the authors and other researchers. To maximize utility to the research community, all datasets in GigaDB are placed under a CC0 waiver (free for use by anyone).