GigaScience aims to revolutionize publishing by promoting reproducibility of analyses and data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use. As an open access and open-data journal, we publish ALL research objects (data, software tools and workflows) from 'big data' studies across the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences. These resources are managed using the FAIR Principles for scientific data management and stewardship that state that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
To achieve our goals, the journal has a novel publication format: one that links standard manuscript publication with an extensive database that hosts all associated data and provides data analysis tools and cloud-computing resources. GigaDB provides a direct link between the published manuscript and the relevant supporting data. We have also built GigaGalaxy, a Galaxy-based data analysis platform to host computational methods and workflows, maximizing use of the data, tools and workflows in our papers in a more accessible and reproducible environment.
Our scope covers not just 'omic' type data and the fields of high-throughput biology currently serviced by large public repositories, but also the growing range of more difficult-to-access data, such as imaging, neuroscience, ecology, cohort data, systems biology and other new types of large-scale shareable data.

Editor-in-Chief
Laurie Goodman, PhD
Executive Editor
Scott Edmunds, PhD
Editor
Nicole Nogoy, PhD
Assistant Editor
Hans Zauner, PhD
Junior Editor
Hongling Zhou
Lead Data Manager
Peter Li, PhD
Lead Biocurator
Chris Hunter, PhD
Data Editor
Mary Ann Tuli
Data Scientist
Chris Armit, PhD
Database Developer
Xiao Si Zhe
 
Editorial Board
Editorial Board Members
Prof. Stephan Beck, University College London, UK 
Dr. Alvis Brazma, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Dr. C. Titus Brown, University of California, Davis, USA 
Prof. Ann-Shyn Chiang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan 
Dr. Melody Clark, British Antarctic Survey, UK
Dr. Lachlan Coin, University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. R. Cameron Craddock, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dr. Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Dr. Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Prof. Laurent Gatto, de Duve Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium
Prof. Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Prof. Takashi Gojobori, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Prof. Lennart Hammarström, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Dr. Robert Hanner, University of Guelph, Canada 
Dr. Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Riken Yokohama Institute, Japan 
Dr. Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK 
Prof. Paul Horton, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 
Dr. Wolfang Huber, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany 
Dr. Eimear Kenny, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Prof. Gary King, Harvard University, USA 
Dr. Angela Laird, Florida International University, USA
Dr. Tin-Lap Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr. Christopher Lortie, York University, Canada
Professor Paul Macklin, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA??
Dr. Matthew MacManes, University of New Hampshire, USA
Dr. Maryann Martone, University of California, San Diego, USA 
Dr. Donald G Moerman, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Prof. Karen Nelson, J Craig Venter Institute, USA 
Prof. Stephen J O'Brien, St. Petersburg University, Russia 
Dr. B F Francis Ouellette, Génome Québec, Canada
Prof. Pavel A Pevzner, University of California, San Diego, USA
Dr. Russell Poldrack, Stanford University, USA 
Dr. Wirulda Nik Pootakham, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand
Dr. Ming Qi, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA 
Dr. Ute Roessner, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Susanna-Assunta Sansone, University of Oxford, UK 
Dr. Michael Schatz, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
Prof. David Schwartz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 
Dr. Fritz Sommer, University of California, Berkeley, USA 
Prof. Lincoln Stein, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
Prof. Sumio Sugano, University of Tokyo, Japan 
Dr. Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee, UK 
Dr. Thomas Wachtler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 
Prof. Jun Wang, iCarbonX, China 
Dr. Kathleen C Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA
Prof. Dawn J Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute, USA
Dr. Alistair Young, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr. Zang Yu-Feng, Hangzhou Normal University, China