GigaByte is an open access and open science journal published by GigaScience Press, BGI's Open Access and Open Data Publishing division. As with our sister-journal GigaScience— we publish ALL reusable and shareable research objects, such as data, software tools and workflows, from data-driven research.

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Who we are

GigaByte is an open science journal published by GigaScience Press. It aims to promote the most rapid exchange of scientific information in a formal peer-reviewed publishing platform. It serves as a venue to rapidly and easily share and build upon research outputs such as data and software. The journal publishes short, focused, data-driven articles and mandates transparent review and use of preprints. Using a novel publishing platform that allows online publication in as little as one day.

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Our evaluation model

Mandated open, named peer review for all papers.

PReF

Sciety uses the PReF (preprint review features) descriptors to describe key elements of each Group's evaluation activities, helping readers to interpret and compare their evaluations. Learn more.

Review requested by
Non-authors
Reviewer selected by
Editor, Service or community
Public interaction
No
Inclusion of author response
No
Decision
Binary decision
Review coverage
Specific aspects, complete paper
Reviewer identity known to
Public
Competing interests
Checked

Our team

We have a team of in-house Editors who select peer reviewers, alongside an Editorial Board on hand to provide advice on difficult decisions and matters relating to thresholds.

Content license

All textual content (manuscripts, peer reviews, associated blog posts, etc.) are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license.