Development of the Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons (ACDC) is underway thanks to a successful Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Critical Research Infrastructure bid, with $3M awarded. The ACDC will provide researchers with access to pooled data from over 400,000 individuals across more than 18 clinical cohorts within Australia.
Read MoreThe Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA) national training registry has found a home in a new national partnership between Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey) and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
Read MoreMeet us at booth 27 of the 23rd International Congress of Genetics, which is being held in Melbourne, Australia from 16-21 July 2023. You can find out about our activities in building bioinformatics infrastructure to support human health, agricultural and environmental science research, and discuss the challenges researchers face. We’ll showcase the services that the BioCommons and our partners offer and we would love to hear your feedback!
Read MoreWe help convene the international Gen3 Community Forum, and the next online event ‘Data Modeling in Gen3 Data Commons’ is coming up on Friday July 7, 6.30 am AEST. Our Human Genomics Data Specialist, Marion Shadbolt, will deliver a presentation on streamlining Gen3 data dictionaries.
Read MoreThe new Galaxy Australia Genome Lab is now available for use by the Australian genomics community. This customised, user-friendly workbench provides rapid access to a range of sophisticated resources needed for genome assembly and annotation.
Read MoreAustralian BioCommons is launching a new community to uplift bioinformatics trainers in Australia. The National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative brings together training providers, managers, (current and aspiring) trainers around collaborative events that connect trainers and create new opportunities in bioinformatics training.
Read MoreThe European life science data infrastructure, ELIXIR, has renewed its collaboration strategy with Australian BioCommons. Both organisations work to further open access to resources to understand the molecular basis of life and have been collaborating for many years. The current collaboration strategy was formally marked at June’s ELIXIR All Hands meeting in Dublin, which included a plenary presentation by Australian BioCommons Deputy Director, Jeff Christiansen.
Read MoreThe Australian BioCommons recently contracted the CSCCE to offer their popular Community Engagement Fundamentals course to the Australian research infrastructure workforce.
Read MoreAustralian BioCommons has entered into an access agreement the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre boosting access to high end supercomputing for life science research nationally.
Read MoreOver 6 million jobs have been submitted and more than 75,000 workflows have been run on Galaxy Australia by researchers demonstrating the platform's immense value in facilitating research across a range of fields. Hear about what the team has been up to at GCC2023.
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