Doing something about it - The G3 Workshop

The more I delve into this important area of open access, open data and publishing, the more I find that the, stakeholders and the scientists that need to publish their work, should be well aware of and exploit to their full potential. In light of this, I have been involved with putting together a workshop in Melbourne, Australia, called the Great Galaxy GigaScience (G3) Workshop. This one-day event will be held on September 19 at The University of Melbourne. Two concurrent workshops will take place, the first on Galaxy, a web-based platform for bioinformatics analysis while the second is on Authorea, an online manuscript drafting facility that is great for collaborative writing (with Git running under the hood for version control). This along with talks from some leading scientists on the top ten rules for presenting data by Professor David Vaux, as well as members of the GigaScience Editorial and Data Team.

In formulating this workshop I have come together and worked with some great people including those at Melbourne ITS Research and VLSCI. I have also come across some cool new tools that will certainly help my publishing prowess and accumen. This includes PubPeer, and PubChase.