The Australian Tree of Life (AToL) Genome Engine is enabling rapid, automated genome assembly, annotation and publication, turning raw sequence data in reference genomes for Australian birds, fish, threatened species and more.

BioCommons Director, Dr Jeff Christiansen, has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Global Biodata Coalition, working alongside global data experts to guide strategic approaches for funding and sustainability of digital infrastructure.

A collaborative effort from academia and industry has made a popular protein design software package free for commercial use, removing a significant barrier for biotechnology companies wanting to use the pipeline.

The open-source data platform, Gen3, is able to support robust data ecosystems that are tailor-made for their users. Australian BioCommons is supporting multiple deployments through the GUARDIANS Program, helping national consortia management and share their human omics data holdings between research collaborators.

The development of a new national resource is underway that will unite pre-clinical models, data and researchers to better understand mental disorders at the molecular level.

A new one-click data transfer feature now connects the Bioplatforms Data Portal directly to Galaxy Australia. Powered by BioCommons Access, this integration lets researchers instantly send large datasets straight to the analysis platform without having to switch.

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.

GUARDIANS program leads and project delivery partners from across Australia gathered this month for the third GUARDIANS partner meeting. Held in Melbourne, the two-day event provided a forum to showcase achievements, discuss challenges, and plan for the future of secure, responsible genomic data infrastructure in Australia.

The Sydney Informatics Hub and Australian BioCommons have developed a reusable instructor package to support trainers in delivering high quality introductory Nextflow training workshops with less preparation.

The Australian Structural Biology Computing Community is seeking Australian EMCR researchers in structural biology to share their work at a special online meeting.

A new ready-to-use virtual environment offers researchers immediate access to a curated set of bioinformatics tools and datasets. BioShell provides a command line interface that is preconfigured for bioinformatics and uses national computer resources, at no cost to researchers.

Seqera has released a new case study featuring Australian BioCommons: Australian BioCommons Standardizes Bioinformatics and Scales Compute Access Nationwide with Seqera.

The deep learning-based genome annotation tool, Tiberius, is now available in Galaxy Australia. After being wrapped and extensively tested, it is freely available for everyone’s use in the Genome Lab. 

Australian BioCommons is proud to announce that Dr Sarah Beecroft has been awarded the 2026 Early Career eResearch Excellence Prize by AeRO. The prize recognises Sarah’s excellence in research enablement, technical innovation, collaboration, and community leadership.

The Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS) has been providing access to infrastructure and computational resources for over 5 years, enhancing the capacity of life scientists to readily harness national infrastructure to accelerate their discoveries. The publications generated by 73 projects involving 471 ABLeS users provide a fascinating insight into the diversity of research requiring large-scale computational power for bioinformatics.

Australian researcher, George Bouras, has recently contributed an extraordinary 17 million protein predictions to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. This work was possible thanks to the availability of the ColabFold tool on Setonix AMD, the result of collaboration between BioCommons and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre.

GlyCombo is now live on Galaxy Australia as the platform's first dedicated glycomics software tool. This high-throughput workflow, developed by Protea Glycosciences, offers researchers a streamlined, reproducible way to automate glycan identification from complex mass spectrometry data in just a few clicks.