The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA), a collaborative network of diverse scientists, marked its second anniversary with a workshop in Munich, Germany in 2015, where international attendees focused on discussing current progress, milestones and bioinformatics resources. The community determined the recruitment and training of talented researchers as one of the most pressing future needs and identified opportunities for network funding. GIGA also promotes future research efforts to prioritise taxonomic diversity and create new synergies. Here, we announce the generation of a central and simple data repository portal with a wide coverage of available sequence data, via the compagen platform, in parallel with more focused and specialised organism databases to globally advance invertebrate genomics. This article serves the objectives of GIGA by disseminating current progress and future prospects in the science of invertebrate genomics with the aim of promotion and facilitation of interdisciplinary and international research.

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更正：通过全球无脊椎动物基因组学联盟（GIGA）推进基因组学

由无数科学家组成的协作网络全球无脊椎动物基因组学联盟（GIGA）于2015年在德国慕尼黑举办了一次研讨会，以纪念其成立两周年。在此期间，国际与会者重点讨论了当前的进展，里程碑和生物信息学资源。社区将招聘和培训有才华的研究人员确定为最紧迫的未来需求之一，并确定了获得网络资助的机会。GIGA还促进未来的研究工作，以优先考虑生物分类多样性并创造新的协同效应。在这里，我们宣布通过compagen平台与更集中和更专业的生物数据库并行生成一个中央且简单的数据存储库门户，该门户具有广泛的可用序列数据覆盖，从而在全球范围内促进无脊椎动物基因组学的发展。