Bringing Seqera Platform to Australian researchers
Dr Steven Manos, BioCommons’ A/Director of the BioCloud, recently returned from Barcelona where he opened the global Nextflow Summit by presenting “The national Nextflow Tower service for Australian researchers.” He was invited to share his experience in recognition of the sophisticated Australian usage of the workflow management and data analysis space, Seqera Platform.
A partnership involving Seqera Labs, Pawsey and NCI has allowed BioCommons to investigate how to best support researchers in their Nextflow workflow use across high-performance computing (HPC) and commercial cloud environments. Since July 2022, the Seqera Platform has been integrated with the Pawsey and NCI supercomputers as well as compute environments at WEHI, AGRF and AWS. The service is in use by 60 individuals from 20 research groups/organisations.
Once fully operational, the Australian Seqera Platform Service will offer a fully subsidised, centralised command post for Australian researchers to manage and run their Nextflow workflows. Users can bring their own supercomputing allocations, local HPC or commercial cloud services. Alternatively, access to compute can be provided through the Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS). BioCommons is now inviting Australian life sciences research groups and organisations to express interest in joining the pilot project that is building this national service. For now, the call out is for experienced users/groups with access to compute infrastructure, Nextflow workflows and testing datasets ready for use, and the requisite expertise to manage their environment.
Did you know? Nextflow Tower has recently been rebranded “Seqera Platform”
A progress update on the Seqera Platform pilot project will be presented at the 2023 ABACBS Conference by Dr Ziad Al Bkhetan, Bioinformatics Application Specialist in the ABLeS program and Seqera Platform Service Lead. As silver sponsors, we extend our long history of supporting the conference and we hope you will catch up with Ziad and other BioCommons staff to discuss the latest developments in Seqera Platform and other BioCommons services.
Learn more about Seqera Platform via this Australian BioCommons webinar or by visiting the pilot project GitHub pages.
The Seqera Platform pilot project is delivered through the Australian BioCommons ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Expansion Project. The BYOD Expansion Project is funded through NCRIS investments from Bioplatforms Australia and the Australian Research Data Commons (http://doi.org/10.47486/PL105) that are matched with co-investments from AARNet, Melbourne Bioinformatics, NCI, Pawsey, QCIF via the Queensland Government RICF fund, The University of Sydney, AGRF, Griffith University and Monash University.