Collaborative activities between Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR have expanded rapidly since the signing of the three year ELIXIR - Australian BioCommons Collaboration Strategy in 2020. The interactions so far have been productive, friendly and insightful and span an impressive breadth and depth of topics. Some of our ELIXIR peers that are actively involved in BioCommons collaborations will join us at the BioCommons Showcase 2021.
Read MoreTo celebrate the broad update and diversity of their users, Galaxy Australia took the opportunity to spotlight the researcher who submitted the two millionth job to the service.
Dr Ruvini Lelwala is a Bioinformatics Research Associate at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) working with the guidance of A/Prof Roberto Barrero, eResearch Office (QUT). As part of a multidisciplinary group of bioinformaticians, computational biologists, molecular biologists, plant pathologists and policy makers, Ruvini is using Galaxy Australia to develop enhanced diagnostics for the detection of exotic plant pathogens.
Read MoreThe largest-ever Galaxy training event, “GTN Smörgåsbord: a global Galaxy course” was run last month. It attracted 1189 registrations from 76 different countries, and engaged 583 live on Slack (chat platform). The mammoth asynchronous event offered all training materials - pre-recorded videos, slides, hands-on manuals, and the compute to run tutorials - and live help at any time participants joined. Read on for more details about the event and how Galaxy Australia and BioCommons staff helped make it all happen.
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