Want to develop your skills while pitching in to the international effort to improve life science data infrastructure and code? Join the Australian Outpost of the BioHackathon Europe! This unique opportunity to participate in a significant global event will see you networking with your international peers while working locally on practical challenges. BioCommons will cover your expenses to join us in Brisbane for the duration of ELIXIR’s BioHackathon, 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2023.
Read MoreWe have just wrapped up the global Galaxy Community Conference for 2023. Over 130 delegates from 20 countries joined us at QUT to discuss the latest developments in Galaxy, both in person and online.
Read MoreWith researchers continuing to have more and more data to process and analyse, Dr Georgina Samaha is aiming to break down barriers that inhibit researchers from accessing the compute resources they need during her Nextflow/nf-core mentorship.
Read MoreThe Simon Gladman Travel Grant is an annual award to honour Simon’s legacy as an innovator, role model, supporter and community connector, and will support Australian citizens who are travelling to participate in a Galaxy community event.
Read MoreDevelopment 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.
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