The Australian Structural Biology Computing Community is seeking Australian EMCR researchers in structural biology to share their work at a special online meeting.
A new ready-to-use virtual environment offers researchers immediate access to a curated set of bioinformatics tools and datasets. BioShell provides a command line interface that is preconfigured for bioinformatics and uses national computer resources, at no cost to researchers.
Seqera has released a new case study featuring Australian BioCommons: Australian BioCommons Standardizes Bioinformatics and Scales Compute Access Nationwide with Seqera.
The deep learning-based genome annotation tool, Tiberius, is now available in Galaxy Australia. After being wrapped and extensively tested, it is freely available for everyone’s use in the Genome Lab.
Australian BioCommons is proud to announce that Dr Sarah Beecroft has been awarded the 2026 Early Career eResearch Excellence Prize by AeRO. The prize recognises Sarah’s excellence in research enablement, technical innovation, collaboration, and community leadership.
The Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS) has been providing access to infrastructure and computational resources for over 5 years, enhancing the capacity of life scientists to readily harness national infrastructure to accelerate their discoveries. The publications generated by 73 projects involving 471 ABLeS users provide a fascinating insight into the diversity of research requiring large-scale computational power for bioinformatics.
Australian BioCommons join ELIXIR’s All Hands meeting in France this month, an international gathering to share insights and address the challenges of building and sustaining distributed life science data infrastructure.
To celebrate some of NCRIS’s many successes, the Department of Education has produced a booklet which includes a case study that describes how Australian BioCommons supported the automation of data processing for better border biosecurity.
Australian researcher, George Bouras, has recently contributed an extraordinary 17 million protein predictions to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. This work was possible thanks to the availability of the ColabFold tool on Setonix AMD, the result of collaboration between BioCommons and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre.
GlyCombo is now live on Galaxy Australia as the platform's first dedicated glycomics software tool. This high-throughput workflow, developed by Protea Glycosciences, offers researchers a streamlined, reproducible way to automate glycan identification from complex mass spectrometry data in just a few clicks.
BioCommons brought together research data infrastructure experts from the USA, Finland, New Zealand and across Australia to strengthen the collaborative and technical capability required to build world-class human genomics and biomedical data infrastructure.
The Galaxy Labs Engine is featured in a new paper detailing how researchers can build their own tailored digital labs. These bespoke interfaces provide curated tools and synchronised workflows that simplify complex, domain-specific bioinformatics for our community.
‘Foundations of protein structure’ is a new self-paced training module developed in collaboration with the Australian Structural Biology Computing (ASBC) community and EMBL-EBI to help researchers bridge the gap between theory and practice.
The GUARDIANS program has delivered a solution for secure genomic data movement in partnership with QIMR Berghofer. This collaboration leverages AARNet’s Globus service to facilitate the transfer of massive datasets and strengthen digital research infrastructure, both locally and globally.
The prediction and analysis of protein structure by Australian researchers has been accelerated by the publication of the Structural Biology AI Reference Collection at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
Our team members bring deep expertise and broad experience. Hear how a UX Designer contributes to the BioCommons mission. Mok is our friendly translator who sits between complex systems and real humans, reshaping complicated processes into smooth, logical journeys.
The Sydney satellite of the international nf-core Hackathon brought together members of the Nextflow and nf-core community to work collaboratively on a diverse range of projects.
Australian BioCommons partnered with NVIDIA, OpenACC, Monash University, NCI, Pawsey and SHARON AI to bridge the gap between industry hardware experts and life science researchers.
The Galaxy Training Network offers tutorials covering everything from genomics to machine learning. These self-paced resources combine videos and worked examples, allowing researchers to master complex bioinformatics tools.
Galaxy Australia solves the technical bottleneck for molecular biologists who need to perform high-level bioinformatics without dedicated coding expertise. Molecular Biologist, Dr Donald Gardiner, from University of Queensland, uses the platform to understand how pathogens cause disease in plants.
This webinar discusses how genomic data is moving from research to the clinic, and why research data infrastructure must pivot to facilitate this important shift.
Join members of the metabolomics bioinformatics community who meet regularly to discuss bioinformatics methods and challenges in metabolomics.
Come together online with others who are creating, modifying and reusing workflows for bioinformatics.
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss single cell and spatial omics research
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss genomics research in Australia
A hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of RNA-Seq analysis using the Galaxy platform.
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss multiomics research in Australia
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss microbiome analysis research
Australian BioCommons is mapping the future of AI in the life sciences. Join the webinar to hear the results of our national consultation and preview our new training program.
Join Dr Simon Breeden to discuss the background, development and impact of the Technician Commitment, an internationally recognised initiative that is driving culture change for the technical community.
Start navigating the evolving field of spatial omics and the numerous methods available and explore considerations for analysis of spatial omics data.
Learn why Galaxy is versatile platform for online analysis of biological data whether you are new to data analysis or are looking to take your workflows to the next level.
Move beyond the AI hype and discover how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be applied in the Life Sciences
Learn how Seqera Platform is useful in different research applications and how to access the new subsidised Australian Nextflow Seqera Service.
Explore essential guidelines with us to ensure robust evaluation and reproducibility of machine learning models in life science research
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This introductory webinar will discuss how functional enrichment analysis can be used to gain insights from long lists of genes or proteins. It's part of a mini series on functional enrichment analysis.
Take a whirlwind tour of the human genomics data resources available at EMBL-EBI that are used by scientists across the world to discover and explore genes, variants and their impact on human health and disease.
Discover how Nextflow is transforming the bioinformatics landscape with cutting-edge pipelining solutions.
The landscape of AI-assisted development has expanded considerably, and with it, the number of tools competing for a place in our workflows. Hear from BioCommons Data Engineer, Dr Joshua Harris, as he shares his experiences with some of these tools.
Magda shares her experience at the Australian outpost of the international hackathon!
Thinking about upskilling as a trainer but not sure where to start? Here, I share my experience as a trainer (and former researcher!) with three great Train-the-Trainer resources - what they offer, how they differ, and which one might be the best fit for you, depending on your goals.
George shares his fantastic experience at BioHackathon 2024!
Gareth reflects on the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference and celebrates how frequently the Galaxy Australia team were cited as important contributors to global initiatives
Johan has supported GAP for over four years and shares his reflections on the journey.
Late last year, we were lucky enough to be selected to attend the 2023 EMBL-EBI Managing a Bioinformatics Core Facility Workshop held at the Wellcome Sanger Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK.
The Australian Outpost of the 2023 BioHackathon struck me as a great opportunity to brush up on my coding skills!
As a training coordinator I’m often asked about the impact of our training on people and their ability to achieve their scientific goals. But what about the environmental impact of our events?
Australian researchers are part of a thriving global effort that collectively works on projects, platforms and services to democratiseaccess to methods in computational MS.
BioFAIR is an exciting new digital research infrastructure that enables the compute resources of ELIXIR and partners to be provided to researchers throughout the UK.
