We offer dedicated bioinformatics infrastructure to support R&D activities for researchers across Australian life science companies, ranging from startups and SMEs to larger enterprises.
Our platforms and training program have already empowered hundreds of industry scientists across Australia through utilising our core services or taking part in bioinformatics training events.
Industry use
Subsidised access
The majority of Australian BioCommons services are fully subsidised* for any researchers from Australian life science companies for R&D activities, with generous computational and working data storage quotas.
Assured intellectual property and data security
When using Australian BioCommons services, you keep your intellectual property. Your data and workflows remain safe, private, and secure.
Preferential quotas for Australian users
Registrations using an Australian business email address (com.au) are eligible for preferential access and quotas for most services.
Bioinformatics training events
Industry researchers are welcome at all training events and community activities.
If you have any specific questions about access, please Contact us.
*Exceptions
Our bioinformatics 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 2000+ 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, is fully 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.