This Special Issue: skúkum tílixam: Uniting to Support Indigenous Contributions to Molecular Ecology was co-edited by GFANZ council alumna Dr. Alana Alexander.
There are great research articles, thoughtful insights, and useful resources. Most of the articles are open access, so anyone can read them. Excellent issue highlighting the work of Indigenous researchers in molecular ecology.
This is a new open-source database for sharing human viral pathogen genomic data. They aim to increase international collaboration and improve public health responses. To learn more or use the database, check out their web site: https://pathoplexus.org.
“We had a kōrero about the rarity of Wharekura and about how us taking her to be studied benefits not only marine science and everybody in Aotearoa, but us as a people, too, so we can understand more about what’s happening here in our own water. Having a taonga like Wharekura washed up so young…
Last month, Julien Gaspar, Steve A. Trewick, and Gillian C. Gibb published the paper De-novo assembly of four rail (Aves: Rallidae) genomes: A resource for comparative genomics. It is open access for everyone to read. The publishing of this work is a milestone for the GFANZ cloud bioinformatics platform project. By using the GFANZ infrastructure,…
Tahu Kukutai and Amanda Black argue that researchers must do much better in honoring the kaitiaki rights of Māori regarding the protection of indigenous nonhuman genomic data. Their work CARE-ing for Indigenous nonhuman genomic data — rethinking our approach was publish in the journal Science recently. This piece is well researched, clearly written, and a…
Data sharing is common practice amongst genomics researchers. So is not sharing. Open Science principles can be (and are) applied in ways that diminish or ignore benefit sharing. Māori communities may want to have control over access, use, and downstream benefits to their genetic data (human and taonga species). Is it technically possible to honor…