What to do when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute

Need to take your bioinformatics to the next level? Maybe you need to better understand the compute requirements for your bioinformatics workflows, or learn how to access compute that suits your needs as an Australian researcher?

You can now watch the recordings of the popular webinars 'Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute' and 'High performance bioinformatics: submitting your best NCMAS application' and consult the associated 'cheat sheet' to identify your next steps.

In time for the opening of applications for the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme 2022, we partnered with Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) to offer advice to help researchers find the compute their research needs. SIH were already offering tailored support to their University of Sydney researcher community, and were keen to share their expertise more broadly. We drew in our national research infrastructure provider partners to share tips on accessing compute including Galaxy Australia, cloud and high-performance computing services offered by the Australian Research Data Commons, the National Compute Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey.

You can watch the recording of Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute and consult the accompanying list of Australian research computing contacts. This ‘cheat sheet’ has been uploaded along with all of the other files, materials and metadata to the Australian BioCommons Training Materials repository.

If you know you need specialised compute infrastructure to support your use of efficient, scalable workflows for your data intensive research, then the High performance bioinformatics: submitting your best NCMAS application webinar provides life science researchers with insights into what makes a strong NCMAS application. It focuses on the technical assessment, and how to design and present effective and efficient bioinformatic workflows for the various national compute facilities.

If you would like to read the supporting documents or attend an online information session about the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme 2022 round, visit this NCI Help page.