Advice, infrastructure and support for community-scale bioinformatics training

The Australian BioCommons training team enables life science research excellence by creating opportunities to develop transferable skills in bioinformatics and to learn how to use new platforms, tools, services and techniques.

The team convenes the National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative and partners with the extended Australian BioCommons network to deliver practical and accessible bioinformatics training. We connect large organisations, small facilities, collaborative initiatives and individual experts to deliver community-scale training opportunities. 

Just as BioCommons forms partnerships to drive coordinated solutions to life science researchers’ problems, the training team supports specialists from our community to create training resources and events. We can support individuals and groups to share their specialist knowledge with the national community by:

• Implementing a framework for virtual or hybrid training

• Providing advice on training materials

• Taking care of event logistics

• Finding additional trainers to help with delivery

• Connecting with an engaged audience

• Choosing and accessing computational resources to support your training needs e.g. Galaxy Australia, Nectar Cloud. 

Read more about how we work in this case study of a successful training collaboration with researchers from the Genomics for Australian Plants consortium to deliver a series of high quality, live, hands-on learning opportunities.

Get in touch to find out how we can help bring your training to a national audience training@biocommons.org.au