How does BioCommons Access help researchers?

At launch, Galaxy Australia and the Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal will be the first two services to utilise the BioCommons Access service, with additional services to follow.

BioCommons Access will include a new feature - service bundles. Researchers are increasingly using embargoed and 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.

At launch, the first Service bundle will be the Threatened Species Initiative (TSI) bundle, allowing approved members: 

• Access to embargoed TSI data from the Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal

• The ability to easily transfer data from the Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal to Galaxy Australia

• Full access to the Galaxy Australia service

• The ability to run large genome assemblies and genome annotation via Fgenesh++ pipelines on Galaxy Australia

New bundles will become available as…