BioShell is a command-line environment built for life sciences research, delivered on safe Australian national infrastructure.
This pre-configured, virtual environment provides a secure, ready-to-use interface for bioinformatics, offering researchers immediate access to a curated set of bioinformatics tools and datasets, allowing for reproducible analysis and consistent environments.
BioShell
✔ Pre-installed with software, tools and datasets
✔ Single-command container loading powered by the Shelley CLI agent
BioShell command-line interface
A virtual command-line environment available on Australian compute, simplifying bioinformatics research and training
✔ User-friendly design
✔ Bioinformatics-ready reproducible environment
Why should I apply?
Bridge the gap between your laptop and supercomputing resources without the steep learning curve, complex allocation requests, or specialised architecture required to use high performance computing (HPC) services
Hit the ground running by using data analysis interfaces you’re familiar with like RStudio or Jupyter
Conduct your analyses with full privileges within a safe environment
Partners
Australian BioCommons partners with the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney to manage BioShell, which is underpinned by computational resources provided by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), building upon original development by the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. This work is enabled by NCRIS via funding from Bioplatforms Australia.
