Find the tools, workflows and compute you need

We all know that finding the right computational tools for your research can be frustrating. Which tools do what, where can you find them and which high end computers can you access?

Australian BioCommons has worked with their infrastructure partners to pull together a convenient list of the tools, workflows and compute systems that are available to Australian life science researchers. The new searchable pages offer a landscape view of what’s out there, providing a quick scan of available high performance computing resources, local installations of bioinformatics tools and useful details about relevant workflows. Click below and watch with sound or captions for a quick tour.

The Australian BioCommons Technical Documentation pages open up information that is often scattered and opaque. The birds-eye-view of the national research infrastructure ecosystem will be useful for the whole range of researchers from the uninitiated biologist to the bioinformatician seeking targeted technical specs. The lists are not exhaustive and will grow over time - you might like to add your own resources to make them more findable by your peers!

It will make our life easier to know where and how to access the resources we need. 

Mike Thang, Bioinformatician 
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

From ABRicate through to zsdt, you can currently find the details of 400+ tools and workflows. Already know the particular tool you need for your analysis? You can search the tool’s availability and find which versions are installed at various facilities. Maybe you can get what you need without going through a formal allocation process, or discover some new tools by searching by topics like sequence alignment or phylogenomics.

The tools list will be a really useful resource for researchers, particularly those who are just getting started and want to understand what software is available for their analysis and what computing platform would be most suitable. It’s awesome to have all of that information on hand in the one place! 

Parice Brandies, PhD Candidate
School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney

Visit the new listings of tools, workflows and compute systems available across Australian BioCommons partners at the Australian BioCommons Technical Documentation pages.