BioCommons Access
Access analysis tools and data across the Australian BioCommons ecosystem
BioCommons Access is designed to remove the friction of researchers having to manage multiple accounts and manually jumping between different platforms to run increasingly complex workflows.
BioCommons Access enables:
Single sign-on access to multiple analysis and data services
Service bundles offering curated collections of relevant analysis tools and data
Data transfer between services
A central management portal where you can update your user details and access services
What are Service Bundles?
Researchers are increasingly using embargoed sensitive data and specialised analytics resources across multiple services. In the past, researchers had to assemble these resources themselves.
Service bundles make it easy for researchers to access sets of resources in one step, such as open and/or embargoed data, analysis tools and pipelines/workflows, and the ability to easily move data between both.
The first service bundle available is the Threatened Species Initiative (TSI) bundle, allowing approved consortium members:
Access to embargoed TSI data from the Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal
Full access to the Galaxy Australia service
The ability to run large genome assemblies and genome annotation pipelines on Galaxy Australia
The ability to easily transfer data from the Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal to Galaxy Australia (coming in May 2026)
New bundles will become available to support national research communities as required.
Partners
Australian BioCommons builds and operates BioCommons Access in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, the Sydney Informatics Hub at the University of Sydney, Bioplatforms Australia, QCIF Digital Research and BizData. The Service was established as an output of the Australian BioCommons BioCloud team. It is supported by Bioplatforms Australia via NCRIS funding.
