Diverse range of BioCommons activities on display at eResearch Australasia 2023

The 2023 eResearch Australasia Conference will take place in Brisbane from 16 – 20 October. eResearch offers delegates interested in information-centric research capabilities the chance to engage, connect, and share their ideas. Sessions will cover how information and communication technologies help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, understand and re-use information.

A diverse range of BioCommons activities will be on show at the conference, presented by BioCommons staff and our collaborators. Please join us at the sessions below!

Tue 17 Oct

10:05 am - Presentation: DReSA – a story of continuing collaboration in skills training (Melissa Burke)

10:25 am - Presentation: Building Galaxy Labs to advance life science research (Gareth Price on behalf of Anna Syme)

2:15 pm - Birds of a Feather (BoF): Discussing the implementation of SciDir – A scientific software distribution repository for bringing reproducible software containers securely to HPCs in Australia (Greg D’Arcy - AARNet collaborator)

4:05 pm - BoF: Driving community engagement with National Research Infrastructures (Melissa Burke)

Wed 18 Oct

11 am - Presentation: Curating species lists: Aggregating data to enhance context (Keeva Connolly speaking about the soon to be launched Australian Reference Genome Atlas, ARGA)

2 pm - Presentation: Visible & reusable workflows (Johan Gustafsson)

2:20 pm - BoF: Visible research software interest group (Johan Gustafsson)

4:10 pm - BoF: Putting Babel fish in our ears – creating a language for developers to talk to infrastructure designers and users for mutual gain (Mok, Keeva Connolly, Kathryn Hall - Atlas of Living Australia collaborator)

Thu 19 Oct

12 pm - Presentation: Knitting jumpers from steel wool and spaghetti: implementing a modified Darwin Core Event model for the Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA) to increase trust through provenance (Kathryn Hall)