Next month’s RDA's 19th Plenary will see the launch the new RDA Life Science Data Infrastructures Interest Group, co-chaired by Australian BioCommons.
Read MoreThe Australian BioCommons is enabling rapid insights into life science community data assets using high end computing through its Australian BioCommons Leadership Share, also known as ABLeS. Working to facilitate researchers’ use of Australia’s national computing facilities, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, ABLeS offers computational resources, specialist expertise, centrally supported tools and software through and a shared repository of tools and software, tailored to support the generation of valuable data assets.
Read MoreYou may have already noticed a new streamlined interface when submitting your latest job to Galaxy Australia. If not, it’s time to check out the refreshed Galaxy Australia landing page!
Important functions in Galaxy Australia have been streamlined, including access to the tutorial library and support requests for tools and data.
Read MoreIn community consultations the Australian BioCommons heard the need to enhance the discoverability of bioinformatics software: our response is ToolFinder.
Read MoreIn response to requests from the Genome Annotation community for automatic genome annotation pipelines, BioCommons has made Fgenesh++ available for use by Australian researchers.
Read MoreJust as our breadth of projects and services are evolving and expanding, so too is the BioCommons team. The past few months have seen people step into new roles and the welcome addition of some new faces.
Read MoreThe Australian BioCommons, ABACBS and the ARDC Software Program recently co-hosted a wide-ranging panel discussion, Improve visibility of research software for career advancement.
The panel shared their experiences of developing, sharing code and software at various stages of their careers. The lively discussion resulted in a recording and resource list for sharing with the community.
Read MoreGalaxy Australia provides Australian researchers access to a rich catalogue of computational resources - now including the GPU clusters required to power AlphaFold. Seizing the opportunity to further democratise access to this useful tool, the Galaxy Australia team got to work to make AlphaFold 2.0 available in Galaxy.
Read MoreThe capability to securely and responsibly share human genome research data nationally and internationally will be enhanced by the new Australian BioCommons project “Global Technologies and Standards for Sharing Human Genome Research Data”, known as the Human Genomes Platform Project.
Experts in human genomics from many of Australia’s largest human genome sequencing and analysis efforts have formed a new team that will deliver fundamental improvements in data management and drive access to new capabilities that will enable new science from valuable genomic data.
Read MoreThe National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative is thrilled to welcome onboard the South Australian Genomics Centre.
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