Genomics
Genomics is the study of genomes or the complete complement of genes, using genetic material identified through sequencing techniques. Focus areas include genome assembly, annotation and comparative genomics.
Services and resources
Access bioinformatics and data analysis tools without the need to code.
Automated eukaryote genome annotation.
Collaboratively annotate and edit your genomes in a built and maintained private Apollo instance.
Find all available genomic data relevant for Australian native or agricultural taxa in one place.
For researchers wanting to use Nextflow bioinformatics pipelines across a myriad of compute platforms.
Access computational resources to generate genomic data assets.
Find scientific computational workflows for your genomics analyses or share your own in a range of workflow types.
Find where genomics tools are installed and optimised across our national computational partner network.
A central collection of how-to guides prepared by BioCommons community members
BioCommons training including genomics themed webinars, discussions and workshops.
Freely available via the Galaxy Training Network.
Join the conversation - all are welcome!
We help coordinate a community for genomics, which aims to:
Provide a forum to:
Connect with colleagues, share knowledge and collaborate
Learn how to leverage relevant tools and services.
Identify gaps in current community scale digital infrastructure.
This approach helps us identify and deploy relevant national scale services and resources (such as those listed above) that help address these gaps.
The BioCommons coordinates activities for researchers, scientists and bioinformaticians using genomics in their research and work. You can find out more about these activities in:
Note that we also have active projects that are specific to human genomics.
Infrastructure roadmap
We have been engaging with a broad group of Australian researchers since 2019 to develop Genomics Infrastructure Roadmaps for Australia, which present a community vision for shared national infrastructure that will help researchers undertake genomics analyses.
Roadmaps act as blueprints to inform the work we do with various partners to deploy the services and resources listed above.
Ongoing activities
Adapting genome assembly and annotation pipelines and guides developed by the Vertebrate Genomes Project for use on Galaxy Australia. Read about some of the assembly pipelines that are available.
Improving omics data sharing and publishing to international repositories in response to challenges identified by the genomics community. Read about the collaboration with EMBL-EBI to support changes to their repository guidance for data submitters.
Working with the Australian Tree of Life Informatics Capability to establish two new platforms that will expedite genome assembly and annotation workflows along with data reports and publications for researchers.
