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Editorial
. 2020 Jul 1:2020:gigabyte1.
doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.1. eCollection 2020.

GigaByte: Publishing at the Speed of Research

Scott C Edmunds  1 , Laurie Goodman  1
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Editorial

GigaByte: Publishing at the Speed of Research

Scott C Edmunds et al. GigaByte. .

Abstract
in English, Chinese

Current practices in scientific publishing are unsuitable for rapidly changing fields and for presenting updatable data sets and software tools. In this regard, and as part of our continuing pursuit of pushing scientific publishing to match the needs of modern research, we are delighted to announce the launch of GigaByte, an online open-access, open data journal that aims to be a new way to publish research following the software paradigm: CODE, RELEASE, FORK, UPDATE and REPEAT. Following on the success of GigaScience in promoting data sharing and reproducibility of research, its new sister, GigaByte, aims to take this even further. With a focus on short articles, using a questionnaire-style review process, and combining that with the custom built publishing infrastructure from River Valley Technologies, we now have a cutting edge, XML-first publishing platform designed specifically to make the entire publication process easier, quicker, more interactive, and better suited to the speed needed to communicate modern research.

随着科技领域日新月异地发展，现行的科学出版方式已无法满足其快速的变化，也不利于展示不断更新的数据集和软件工具。有鉴于此，以及我们对“推动科学出版方式以适应现代研究需求”的不懈追寻，我们很高兴地宣布：一本在线的、完全开放获取、开放数据期刊——GigaByte正式创刊。GigaByte旨在以一种全新的“软件”模式发表研究成果：代码、版本、派生、更新和重演（CODE、RELEASE、FORK、UPDATE和REPEAT）。继GigaScience在促进数据共享和研究的可重复性方面取得成功之后，新创姐妹刊GigaByte力求更进一步。GigaByte发表的文章篇幅简短，审稿过程采用问卷形式，并将这一审稿形式与River Valley Technologies公司开发的定制版出版基础架构相结合，从而拥有了最先进的可扩展标记语言优先（XML-first）出版平台。该出版平台以整个出版过程更简便、快捷、更具交互性为目标而专门设计，以期与当代的研究交流速度并驾齐驱。

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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are employees of GigaScience Press and BGI.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Recording and slides of Kaveh Bazargan’s talk “Why are we so attached to attachments? Let’s ditch them and improve publishing”, presented in the “Vision” track at FORCE2015 in Oxford on 13th January 2015 https://youtu.be/aFzRVqTNi-8
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Interactive sketchfab view of pseudoscorpion, Feaella Capensis. Data from du Plessis et al., GigaByte, 2020. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/feaeallidae-feaella-capensis-47e22b7875dc40a49668fe788b5e8af2
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Figure 3.
Protocols.io widget for the “repetitive element annotation protocol” http://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bc4niyve
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图1.
该录音和幻灯片为2015年1月13日Kaveh Bazargan在牛津FORCE2015“视觉奖”上展示的报告“我们为什么如此依附于附件？抛弃它们，改善出版流程” https://youtu.be/aFzRVqTNi-8
图2.
图2.
拟蝎的交互式sketchfab浏览。数据来源：du Plessis et al., GigaByte, 2020. https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/feaeallidae-feaella-capensis-47e22b7875dc40a49668fe788b5e8af2
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图3.
东班卓琴蛙的重复元件注释方法，发布于protocols.io。 http://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bc4niyve
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