ISMB2025-Liverpool-poster: Data and Code are First Class Research Objects

IntroductionGigaScience Press publishes two journals: <i>GigaScience</i> and <i>GigaByte.</i> Both have extremely high standards for transparency and reproducibility. To maintain these standards we have a team of data curators (biocurators) whose job is to ensure the manuscripts are as transparent and reproducible as possible prior to publication.GigaDB can host any sort of data, however, we encourage authors to use existing stable public repository (such as those shown below) whenever possible. GigaDB biocurators act as an interpretation layer between the often-verbose standards of FAIR data, and time- pressured authors, who require succinct and pertinent guidance specific to their manuscript.This is accomplished by reading the manuscript prior to peer-review and advising the authors on how to make their research objects available, either privately whilst under peer-review, or directly open. This ensures reviewers can spend their time reviewing the article rather than hunting for the data or code.Here we present a summary of the variety of different repositories that our biocurators recommend to authors, and how we ensure those data are suitably cited and linked from the journal articles and, where appropriate, from GigaDB datasets.Author guidanceAt the initial stage, the curator provides guidance to authors on which data should be shared and how, as well as assistance with submitting to public repositories. This includes advice on licensing, ethical approval verification, and formatting files for FAIRness.In the later stage, curators ensure that all input/output data and methodologies are accessible along with their proper annotations. Finally, through our partnership with DataCite, each dataset in GigaDB receives a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This allows for standardised citation of these datasets in future research, by both the original authors and other investigators.