Posts by Christina Hall
Australia's inaugural nf-core Hackathon Outpost boosts local Nextflow capability

The first-ever Australian satellite site of the international nf-core Hackathon has just taken place in Sydney. Seventeen participants from across the country came together to collaborate on cutting-edge Nextflow projects. This marked a significant step in strengthening Australia’s Nextflow and nf-core community, fostering new collaborations between researchers, bioinformaticians, and Nextflow enthusiasts.

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Australian palaeoenvironments and biodiversity to be reconstructed through metagenomic analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA by national collaboration with Indigenous partners

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) have been offered access to both ABLeS and the Australian Nextflow Seqera Service to enable their vision to create a lasting impact by integrating Indigenous and Western knowledge frameworks to model environmental, cultural, and historical change in Australia over the past millennium and into the near future. 

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Pawsey enables more flexible and scalable DNA analysis

Researchers have developed a novel solution to process nanopore sequencing data on any mainstream GPU hardware, expanding computational options for the global bioinformatics community. Slorado is the first open-source software/library solution for nanopore sequencing basecalling on AMD Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). It was developed using Australia’s most powerful supercomputer at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre with the support of the Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS).

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