We are thrilled to announce that Menzies School of Health Research is joining our National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative. We hope to support the Northern Territory-based medical research institute in its ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Read MoreAre you interested in joining this year’s Biohackathon Europe - but from Australia? BioCommons is hosting the Australian Outpost so we are putting together a team who will work with the international participants in their timezone - but from a city close to home.
Read MoreBioCommons attended this month’s ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Amsterdam, presenting work on behalf of national collaborators and sharing the Australian perspective on the shared needs and challenges facing bioinformatics and computational infrastructures.
Read MoreAustralian Research Data Commons has published a new impact booklet documenting how digital research infrastructure ensures Australian researchers are internationally competitive, including Galaxy Australia as a case study.
Read MoreMolecular biologists and plant pathologists recently came together to learn how to use Galaxy Australia to implement small RNA sequencing for the detection of viruses and viroids in imported plants at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s Post Entry Quarantine (PEQ) Facility.
Read MoreMembers of the BioCommons team have recently returned from the US where they progressed our mission to establish infrastructure for human genome sharing and analysis in Australia and to deliver technical solutions to help researchers actively participate in global research collaborations. Visiting the Gen3 team at the University of Chicago, the CAVATICA team at the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Terra team at the Broad Institute, the opportunity to share ambitions, plans and ideas with our international partners was extremely valuable.
Read MoreIn an effort to support the discovery and reuse of workflows, Australian BioCommons has established a presence on WorkflowHub. BioCommons and its partners have so far registered 31 workflows which have already accumulated more than 16,000 views and 250 downloads.
Australian BioCommons took part in the development of prototype components of the proposed National Approach to Genomic Information Management research ecosystem. The collaborative submission made by our Human Genomes Platform Project and the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research’s returned very favourable reviews in the Preliminary Implementation Recommendations to the Australian Government (April 2022) recently released by Australian Genomics.
Read MoreThe Galaxy Australia team is thrilled to be jetting off to GCC2022 in the USA in July. The chance to meet up in person with the vibrant global Galaxy community has been sorely missed during the past couple of years, so members of the Galaxy Australia team jumped at the chance to discuss their work at the upcoming conference. Check out the wide range of presentations being made by the Australian contingent.
The Biomedical Data Asset will combine two of Australia’s most important biomedical data sets into one user-friendly and accessible environment for the researcher community. The project wants your help to guide the Biomedical Data Asset’s development by sharing the data types, tools, portals and databases your research needs.