Open to All
We provide highly subsidised cutting-edge bioinformatics infrastructure to all Australians across academia, government and industry to enable their research and development activities and address national research priorities.
We are part of Australia’s suite of National Research Infrastructure (NRI) - funded by the Australian Government’s NCRIS program and delivered in accordance with a set of guiding principles which include that “NRI is widely accessible to researchers and industry across Australia. Barriers to access are as low as practicable”.
Our access policies means that all researchers anywhere in the country can access our online bioinformatics platforms and services and training events and join our community activities. Access to the vast majority are fully subsidised for Australian users.
academic users
Thousands of academic researchers and students from Australian universities, research institutes and organisations have utilised our online services or attended our training events, and published hundreds of publications citing use of the services.
Access to our online services is fully subsidised for any Australian academic researcher, with generous computational and working data storage quotas (see the exception for teams).
When using our services, you keep your intellectual property. Your confidential information is safe with us.
Academic researchers are welcome at all training events and community activities.
Registrations using an Australian university or research institute email address (*edu.au) are eligible for preferential access and quotas for some services.
International academic researchers are also welcome to use Galaxy Australia.
Government Users
Hundreds of researchers from the Commonwealth and all State and Territory Governments have utilised our online services or attended our training events.
Our infrastructure is playing a critical role in underpinning the capacity of various Government Departments to address key priorities, including protecting Australia’s agricultural industry from imported diseases.
Access to our online services is fully subsidised for any Australian academic researcher, with generous computational and working data storage quotas (see the exception for teams).
When using our services, you keep your intellectual property. Your confidential information is safe with us.
Government researchers are welcome at all training events and community activities.
Registrations using an Australian university or research institute email address (*edu.au) are eligible for preferential access and quotas for some services.
Industry Users
Hundreds of researchers from Australian Life Science Companies (startups, SMEs and larger enterprises) have utilised our online services to support their R&D activities, or attended our training events.
Read a case study demonstrating how industry researchers are using our infrastructure to support their research or development….
The majority of our online services are fully subsidised for any researchers from Australian Life Science Companies for R&D activities, with generous computational and working data storage quotas (see exceptions).
When using our services, you keep your intellectual property. Your confidential information is safe with us.
Industry researchers are welcome at all training events and community activities.
Registrations using an Australian university or research institute email address (*edu.au) are eligible for preferential access and quotas for some services.
If you have any specific questions about access, please Contact us.
*Exceptions
For All Users
Access to our Australian Nextflow Seqera Service, isfully subsidised to personal workspaces for individual researchers and organisation workspaces for up to 3 users. Due to licensing restrictions, for organisation workspaces with more than 3 users, fully subsidised access is available initially for one year, after which we offer partly subsidised access (i.e. an annual contribution fee applies after one year of more than 3 users).
For Commercial / Industry users
BioCommons infrastructure is available for Australian Industry Users to support Research and Development activities. The use of our infrastructure to underpin routine production activities in a commercial setting is prohibited.
Due to software licensing restrictions, <5 of the 1000s of software packages available through our Galaxy Australia service (e.g. CellRanger, DiaNN) cannot be used for commercial purposes. These packages have a sign-up process that requires users to acknowledge these tools will not be utilised for commercial purposes.
Access to our Australian Nextflow Seqera Service, isfully subsidised to personal workspaces for individual researchers and organisation workspaces for up to 3 users. Due to licensing restrictions, for organisation workspaces with more than 3 users, fully subsidised access is available initially for one year, after which we offer partly subsidised access (i.e. an annual contribution fee applies after one year of more than 3 users).
Our ABLeS program provides computational allocations at NCI and Pawsey, Australia’s peak HPC facilities, and has been designed to support research collaborations that are (a) generating valuable open national reference data assets, (b) analysing data at production scale using established computational workflow approaches, or (c) accelerating bioinformatics software development, installation, optimisation, testing and/or benchmarking. Potential industry users should Contact us to discuss your use case.