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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The Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA)
In an Australian first, our national research infrastructures are creating a new digital atlas to allow researchers to easily discover and work with genomic data. To consolidate Australia’s genomic data and make it available for researchers to use, the Atlas of Living Australia, Bioplatforms Australia, Australian BioCommons and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funded via the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) are collaborating on the Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA).
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New systems established for easier management and sharing of human genome data
The Establishing Gen3 to enable better Human Genome Data sharing in Australia project has been completed as part of the BioCommons’ Human Genome Informatics Initiative.
The project laid the necessary groundwork required for Zero Childhood Cancer and University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research to establish systems for easier management and sharing of their human genome data holdings, and to also ensure that other Australian providers and institutions can easily deploy the same solution in the future.
An upcoming webinar will share the challenges and opportunities that have arisen through this Australian BioCommons project and demonstrate the capabilities of Gen3 and how it can support the management of human genome data for research purposes.
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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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Bioinformatics and data skills training communities
There are so many communities, forums and meetings full of excellent people doing great things while training researchers. Now that most have switched to online meetings we are grabbing the opportunity to connect with specialised groups of experts from around the globe. We'd love you to come along and get involved too!
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Collaboration creates a new national registry of training events, materials and trainers
The close relationship between Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR Europe has led to a successful collaboration with the data science training community in Australia. An active working group with members from organisations from around Australia used funding provided by ARDC and Pawsey to deliver the tailor-made Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA), based on ELIXIR’s TeSS. DReSA aims to make it easier for learners, trainers, and training providers to find digital research skills-focused educational events and resources in Australasia.
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Maximising the potential of bioinformatics training materials through FAIRification
We’ve been assessing if we can make the BioCommons training events and materials more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). We’ve changed our processes, and here we share insights into how we’ve embraced opportunities for improvement.
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Hear about our latest developments at eResearch Australasia 2021
Many of the Australian BioCommons team and partners working on our projects will be presenting at the next eResearch conference from 11-15 Oct 2021. Here’s a snapshot of ways to hear about our ongoing developments.
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Launching the new Australian Apollo Service for collaborative genome annotation
Australian BioCommons is thrilled to announce the launch of the Australian Apollo Service in partnership with QCIF and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre. This new service offers access to the popular tool, Apollo, which facilitates real-time collaborative curation and genome annotation editing, along with a valuable layer of IT support. The Australian Apollo Service allows researchers to focus on the genome annotation curation itself by taking care of all the system administration and hosting customised, local instances of Apollo.
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