Virus research tips Galaxy Australia over 3 million jobs
The Galaxy Australia service is being chosen by large numbers of researchers from around Australia to complete their bioinformatics analyses. Rapid uptake of the service has seen millions of jobs submitted across a broad spectrum of critical research questions with hard-hitting outcomes for the real world.
Here we highlight the work of Dr Rhys Parry, who recently submitted the three millionth job to Galaxy Australia. Rhys has used Galaxy Australia extensively - first for his PhD work in virus discovery and transcriptome assembly, and now for RNA-Seq analysis and assembly of SARS-CoV-2 genomes.
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Leveraging Galaxy Australia to teach proteomics
Proteomics often relies heavily on proprietary software, making access and the provision of training to university students challenging. Dr Matt Padula shares how his use of the open source MaxQuant software in Galaxy Australia has improved his proteomics training at UTS and simplified his own proteomics analysis. While Galaxy Australia has provided Matt with the tools, workflows and training infrastructure he needed, he has also joined an active international community using Galaxy for proteomics.
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Local impact through international engagement with ELIXIR
Collaborative activities between Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR have expanded rapidly since the signing of the three year ELIXIR - Australian BioCommons Collaboration Strategy in 2020. The interactions so far have been productive, friendly and insightful and span an impressive breadth and depth of topics. Some of our ELIXIR peers that are actively involved in BioCommons collaborations will join us at the BioCommons Showcase 2021.
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Another global training success with the ‘SARS-CoV-2 Data Analysis and Monitoring’ workshop
Australian researchers recently took part in the international workshop, SARS-CoV-2 Data Analysis and Monitoring with Galaxy, thanks to the support of the Galaxy Australia team.
Joining 750 registrants from 82 countries, local researchers participated in four days of training in SARS-CoV-2 data analysis and data management. Experts from Africa, Europe, the USA and Australia came together to offer 25 tutorials, 7 hours of pre-recorded videos (including lectures, demos and hands-on) and 6 hours of live Q&A sessions.
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What to do when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute
Need to take your bioinformatics to the next level? We partnered with Sydney Informatics Hub to offer advice that will help you find the compute your research needs. 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 'cheat sheet' to identify your next steps.
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New high memory computers fast-track insights into large genomes
Galaxy Australia’s new high memory servers have delivered an impressive leap forward for scientists with large datasets and computationally-intensive analyses. The large and complex genome of Australia’s national floral emblem, the Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) was assembled this month with game-changing efficiency, in a promising test of new infrastructure capacity.
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Australian user community growth and infrastructure developments highlighted at global Galaxy conference
The Galaxy Australia team has just returned from the Global Galaxy Conference (GCC) (held virtually again this year) where they joined scientists, administrators and developers from more than 55 countries to share knowledge, skills and expertise in the two-week collaboration fest, training event and conference.
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Galaxy Australia course at University of Cambridge
Biologists and wet-lab scientists from the University of Cambridge have just completed a two day introduction to next-generation sequencing taught by Dr Gareth Price. As the Service Manager of Galaxy Australia, Gareth was once again invited to lead the online live subject ‘Next Generation Sequencing Platforms and Bioinformatics Analysis’ from his home base at QCIF.
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New high memory servers for Galaxy Australia
Researchers’ capacity to analyse their life science data was boosted this week when high memory compute servers for Galaxy Australia came online at the University of Melbourne.
Researchers in areas such as machine learning, cheminformatic analysis and long read sequencing will be pushing new limits now the new high memory virtual machines and large-capacity / high-performance local storage enable tools with particularly high memory demands like Mothur, Trinity, Canu and BLAST.
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Galaxy Australia team helping to lead a truly global research activity
The successful mature research software infrastructure project that is Galaxy has evolved over many years, and has benefited from the participation of thousands of people around the world. Responding to the increasing complexity that comes with a rapidly growing audience and to fully engage the international Galaxy Community, a range of new governance structures have been formed. Aussies are well represented in many of these new community groups, reflecting the truly global collaboration and the esteem earned over the years of Galaxy Australia contributions.
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