Upcoming events
If you missed a webinar or workshop, you can browse past events in our archive, view training materials on Zenodo, or watch recordings on our YouTube Channel.
MEETING: Microbiome analysis community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss microbiome analysis research
WEBINAR: Getting started with GPUs for bioinformatics
GPUs are speeding up bioinformatics workflows and making deep learning deep learning tools like AlphaFold possible. Join us for a practical webinar that will get you working with GPUs without the steep learning curve.
MEETING: Bioinformatics Workflows community
Come together online with others who are creating, modifying and reusing workflows for bioinformatics.
MEETING: Australasian Computational Proteomics
Join this informal and diverse group of Australian proteomics researchers and bioinformaticians online to talk about computational infrastructure and services - all welcome.
WEBINAR: Launching the Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons
The Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons (ACDC) is launching as a cloud-based research platform built to accelerate the discovery of new risk markers for heart attack and stroke. Join this webinar to hear about its development, the research value of the platform, and future clinical applications.
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Galaxy for bioinformatics
A guided introduction to the Galaxy Australia platform, including how to navigate the interface, run a simple analysis and create workflows.
WORKSHOP: Long read sequencing for bacterial genomics
Learn the fundamentals of long read sequencing and how it can be used to assemble and analyse bacterial genomes.
WEBINAR: Integrating and Interpreting Metabolomics and Multi-omics Data with Pathway and Class Based Models
Metabolomics has become a powerful and ubiquitous component of modern biological studies, yet experimental results are often hard to interpret, particularly due to sparse metabolome coverage and annotation ambiguity. Pathway based modelling offers a valuable alternative by building models in which the explanatory features - pathway scores - have immediate functional interpretation.
WEBINAR: Benchmarking the latest annotation pipelines on Australian reference genomes
Join us to explore our benchmarking findings and learn how these insights can streamline your own genome assembly and annotation workflows.
Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe 2026
The Australian Outpost will gather to work locally and check in regularly with our international colleagues at this year’s BioHackathon Europe.
MEETING: Metabolomics bioinformatics community
Join members of the metabolomics bioinformatics community who meet regularly to discuss bioinformatics methods and challenges in metabolomics.
MEETING: Multiomics community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss multiomics research in Australia
MEETING: Australian Structural Biology Computing Community
Join the quarterly meeting of the Australian Structural Biology Computing community.
WORKSHOP: RNA-seq using Galaxy
A hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of RNA-Seq analysis using the Galaxy platform.
MEETING: Genomics community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss genomics research in Australia
MEETING: eDNA community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss eDNA research
WEBINAR: Data Engineering - the unsung hero in enabling FAIR data platforms
Follow a data engineer’s journey in building the infrastructure needed to support a data sharing platform. We’ll cover key concepts in managing the end to end flow of data, and hear what considerations and choices are essential to achieving a robust system.
MEETING: Single Cell and Spatial Omics community
Join researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians to discuss single cell and spatial omics research
WEBINAR: The Data Is Moving to the Clinic: Why Research Genomics Infrastructure Must Plug Into Healthcare
This webinar discusses how genomic data is moving from research to the clinic, and why research data infrastructure must pivot to facilitate this important shift.
WORKSHOP: Single cell RNAseq analysis in R
Analysis and interpretation of single cell RNAseq (scRNAseq) data requires dedicated workflows. In this hands-on workshop we will show you how to perform single cell RNAseq analysis using a number of tool.
Introduction to NGS and bioinformatics analysis
A guided introduction to next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and the fundamental bioinformatics analysis involved in modern sequencing analysis.
Introduction to Galaxy
A guided introduction to the Galaxy Australia platform, including how to navigate the interface, manage data, run tools, create workflows, and access training resources.
WORKSHOP: Generative AI Essentials for Life Sciences
An interactive workshop to help life science researchers use generative AI responsibly and effectively by aligning models to specific research tasks.
MEETING: ABLeS User Group
Join ABLeS program participants for updates and to hear how researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians are using the service
WEBINAR: Using Containers in Nextflow
Learn how to run Nextflow workflows using container images from public registries and local systems for reproducible bioinformatics analyses.
WORKSHOP: Unlocking nf-core: customising workflows for your research
A practical workshop to set you up with the foundational knowledge required to run and customise nf-core workflows in a reproducible manner.
Galaxy Training Academy 2026
This week-long, completely free, global online event will help you master the Galaxy platform for data analysis.
WEBINAR: Globus: moving large volumes of research data with ease
This webinar introduces Globus as a powerful solution for life science researchers to manage the transfer of massive datasets with ease.
WEBINAR: Future of AI in Life Sciences
Australian BioCommons is mapping the future of AI in the life sciences. Join the webinar to hear the results of our national consultation and preview our new training program.
WEBINAR: Australian Microbiome – enabling insights into environmental microbial ecosystems
Join Dr Andrew Bisset to explore how the Australian Microbiome initiative provides a uniquely comprehensive, national-scale dataset to track microbial communities and their responses to environmental change.
WEBINAR: Our Future Health: A world-leading platform for discovery, aetiological and translational research
Discover how Our Future Health is building the world’s largest prospective cohort study of 5 million participants to catalyse discovery and translational research.
nf-core hackathon: Australian Outpost
Join us in Sydney to participate in the international nf-core hackathon.
HACKATHON: AI for Science - Australia
This is an exciting opportunity for Australian life science projects to receive support to realise performance gains and speedups in their computation.
WEBINAR: The Technician Commitment: Championing technical skills, roles and careers
Join Dr Simon Breeden to discuss the background, development and impact of the Technician Commitment, an internationally recognised initiative that is driving culture change for the technical community.
MEETING: Workflows Community Initiative - FAIR computational workflows
Join members of the Workflows Community Initiative working group on FAIR computational workflows at their fortnightly meeting.
WORKSHOP: Nextflow on HPC
Learn how to take your bioinformatics pipelines to the next level by scaling them on Australia’s national high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
Integrating AI tools into Gen3
Director of CTDS, Robert Grossman, will share with the community the roadmap for AI in Gen3.
Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe 2025
The Australian Outpost will gather to work locally and check in regularly with our international colleagues at this year’s BioHackathon Europe.
WORKSHOP: Spatial omics
Learn how to analyse data from in situ spatial (e.g. CosMx, Xenium) experiments with Seurat in R to visualise gene expression within tissue samples.
MAGs Hackathon: Australian Outpost
The Australian Outpost will gather in Melbourne to work locally and check in regularly with our international colleagues at this year’s Optimising Metagenome Assembled Genomes building workflows hackathon.