Find out more in this GigaBlog posting on the project http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/rickettsia-bacteria-to-rule-them-all/

See the Q&A with Benjamin Rosen & Timothy Smith in GigaBlog for more insight into this work http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/dna-day-2020-cattle-reference-genome/

NPR has covered this famous cow https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103382511

Including COVID-19, as it is estimated 50% of patients with COVID-19 who have died had secondary bacterial infections. Watch the COSMIC project looking at metagenomics of respiratory samples to identify the bacteria, fungi, and viral co-infections present in patients with COVID-19 https://www.covid-coinfections.org/t/cosmic-co-infections-and-secondary-microbial-infections-in-covid-19/17

We've published and written more on some of these genomes here: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/jellyfish-genomes/

See also a Chinese language adaptation of this statement in Bull. Ntnl. Nat. Sci Foundation China. http://www.cnki.net/kcms/doi/10.16262/j.cnki.1000-8217.2018.06.001.html

See also a Chinese language adaptation of this statement in Bull. Ntnl. Nat. Sci Foundation China. http://www.cnki.net/kcms/doi/10.16262/j.cnki.1000-8217.2018.06.001.html

A more detailed version of this clarification and background is available via our blog: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/appropriate-authorship/

‡ Senior author

This was a winner of the 2018 GigaScience prize and presented at the ICG13 conference in Shenzhen. See video here https://youtu.be/7W6EDZhnvb4

A Keynote on Open Humans was presented by author Madeline Ball at BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) and is viewable here https://youtu.be/CegpG10VPvM

You can watch a video presentation of this work recorded at the Galaxy Community Conference from author Nicola Soranzo here https://vimeo.com/296964100

Coverage in GenomeWeb https://www.genomeweb.com/scan/german-shepherds-own-sequence#.XoeoXG4o-qA

See the homepage for updates taking it towards PLINO 2.0 alpha https://www.cog-genomics.org/plink/2.0/

We also have phased and annotated data for use in plink2.0 worked examples in GigaDB http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100516

Some of the authors have recorded a podcast discussing the implications for algae research from this data https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gane-ka-shu-wong-michael-melkonian-on-if-algae-can/id1420197433?i=1000458893924

GigaScience carry out Open Peer review and you can read the peer reviews via these DOIs:

Joon-Ho Yu: http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/REVIEW.101788 Birgit Wouters: http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/REVIEW.101787

This has been recommended and reviewed by F1000 https://f1000.com/prime/734961664

Some examples of forensic entomology highlighted here https://www.wired.com/2013/10/when-crime-scene-evidence-crawls-away/

Even without reference genomes, mining metagenomes for coronavirus sequences has become particularly topical in 2020. See the Pangolin 2019-nCoV-like coronavirus example https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.08.939660

Jennifer Gardy discusses the groundbreaking H1N1 crowdsourcing efforts in her TEDx talk here (with lots of lessons for the coronavirus outbreak a decade later) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAugMSJ1-Y

See more in GigaBlog about the novel "tweenome" method of datasharing for this project http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/notes-from-an-e-coli-tweenome-lessons-learned-from-our-first-data-doi/

Mining metagenomes for coronavirus sequences has become particularly topical in 2020 (see the Pangolin 2019-nCoV-like coronavirus example https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.08.939660)

As this works with RNA viruses it has been made part of the "Free access to OUP resources on coronavirus and related topics" collection on the Oxford University Press website https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/coronavirus

This approach of using Oxford Nanopore direct-RNA sequencing for viruses has now been carried out on the SARSCov2/COVID19 causing coronavirus. See https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.05.976167

This galaxy + viral genome assembly approach has been updated in 2020 to analyze and store COVID19/SARSCov2 data https://covid19.galaxyproject.org/

Despite being the reason Hong Kong was known as the "fragrant harbour" these tree's are heavily poached and nearly extinct in the wild in Hong Kong http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170306-the-scent-thats-pricier-than-gold

This argment is carried on in the Wikipedia Weekly facebook forum https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/2538506099530539/

See The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Steven Raymond which first named this in honour of Linux creator Linus Torvalds http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

See also the ISCB wikipedia competition that incentivizes (via a cash award) wikipedia entries on computational biology topics. See https://www.iscb.org/iscb-wikipedia-wikidata-competition and https://www.iscb.org/iscb-wikipedia-wikidata-competition

For more perspectives from one of the founders of the award see this related commentary https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy129

See the commentary from 2019 Junior Parasite Award winner Claire Duvallet giving her perspective of winning the award https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giz148

You can see a video abstract and more information on the project in GigaBlog here: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/jack-rabbits-lizards-and-squirrels-oh-my-camera-trap/

In July 2019 whole genome data for more than 160 representatives of skipper butterflies was published, although these were not de novo genome assemblies https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.861.34686

The rarest penguin species, and in 2019 voted "New Zealand Bird of the Year" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12284052

And it has just been reported in Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Destructive-Spotted-Lanternfly-Spotted-in-Connecticut-563208361.html

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=Saccharomyces%20cerevisiae[Organism]&cmd=DetailsSearch

The African eggplant is a good example of the work of the Africa Orphan Crop consortium and many of the authors are consortium members. You can read more on the first genomes released in GigaBlog here: http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/democratising-data-aocc/