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These papers take a look back at 10 years of advances in large-scale research as Open Science has gained momentum and become mainstream.  <script type="text/javascript"> $(".expandableSection").hide(); $(".expandableSectionToggle").click(function() { var y = $(this).attr("trigger-for");$('#' + y).toggle(); }) </script> <div class="contentListingContainer" id="b816a169e28f18cdd0c4"> <div class="contentListingContainerHead"> <h2>Explore the series</h2> </div> <div class="contentListing complexListing"> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac047/6586815?login=true">A decade of GigaScience: 10 years of the evolving genomic and biomedical standards landscape </a></div> <div class="contributors">Lynn M Schriml</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac047, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac047">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac047</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> Standardization of omics data drives FAIR data practices through community-built genomic data standards and biomedical ontologies. Use of standards has progressed from a foreign concept to a sought-after solution, moving from efforts to coordinate data within individual research projects to research communities coming together to identify solutions to common challenges. </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac055/6608501">A decade of GigaScience: A perspective on conservation genetics </a></div> <div class="contributors">Stephen J O'Brien</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac055, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac055">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac055</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> Although conservation was broadly popular, the discovery of the genome and it's introduction to conservation science has revolutionized conservation genetics. Allowing scientists to assess the health of at-risk populations, devise genetic-driven breeding strategies, and other means to attempt to preserve the over 1 million species (and growing) under threat today </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac053/6608504">A Decade of GigaScience: GigaDB and the Open Data Movement </a></div> <div class="contributors">Chris Armit, Mary Ann Tuli, Christopher I Hunter</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac053, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac053">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac053</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> The increasingly multidisciplinary nature of scientific research necessitates a need for Open Data repositories that can archive data in support of publications in scientific journals. Since GigaDB launched, there has been a consistent growth in this resource in terms of data volume, data discoverability and data re-use. In this commentary, we explore the key developments over the last decade.  </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac056/6608502">A Decade of GigaScience: The Challenges of Gigapixel Pathology Images </a></div> <div class="contributors">Geert Litjens, Francesco Ciompi, Jeroen van der Laak</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac056, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac056">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac056</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> In the last decade, the field of computational pathology has advanced at a rapid pace because of the availability of deep neural networks, which achieved their first successes in computer vision tasks in 2012. We expect future challenges to broaden the horizon, for instance by combining data from radiology, pathology and tumor genetics, and to extract prognostic and predictive information. </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac058/6608503">A decade of GigaScience: What can be learned from half a million RRIDs in the scientific literature?</a></div> <div class="contributors">Anita Bandrowski</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac058, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac058">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac058</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> Research resource identifiers (RRIDs) are persistent unique identifiers for scientific resources used to conduct studies such as reagents and tools. Inclusion of these identifiers into the scientific literature has been demonstrated to improve the reproducibility of papers because resources, like antibodies, are easier to find, making methods easier to reproduce.  </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac060/6608500">A decade of GigaScience: the importance of community organizations for open and FAIR efforts in neuroinformatics </a></div> <div class="contributors">Maryann E Martone</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac060, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac060">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac060</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> Neuroscience has undergone a significant transformation over the past decade, becoming an increasingly open and FAIR discipline.  Two community organizations, FORCE11: The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship and INCF: The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility have proved crucial in the development of the community where open sharing of data was actively encouraged. </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac069/6619416">A Decade of GigaScience: Women in Science: Past, Present, and Future</a></div> <div class="contributors">Lijun Liu, Dragomirka Jovic, Laurie Goodman</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac069, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac069">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac069</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> Over the last decade, women have made decisive advances in increasing equality in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM), but they still do not rival that of men. Many mechanisms to reduce gender discrimination have been addressed; however, little to nothing has been done to tackle the differences in the amount of time women spend on responsibilities at home.  </div> </div> <div class="contentListingItem"> <div class="contentListingItemTitle"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac067/6619296">A Decade of <em>GigaScience</em>: Milestones in Open Science</a></div> <div class="contributors">Scott C Edmunds et al.</div> <div class="location"> <div class="citation"><em>GigaScience</em>, Volume 11, 2022, giac067, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac067">https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac067</a></div> </div> <div class="snippet"> Open Science has gained momentum over the past decade, and embracing that, <em>GigaScience</em>, from its launch a decade ago has aimed at pushing scientific publishing beyond just making articles open access toward making the entire research process open and available as an embedded part of the publishing process. 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