Rahul Ratwatte 22/10/26 Rahul Ratwatte 22/10/26

New Insights into childhood cancer: sharing data to transform precision medicine

In November, Children’s Cancer Institute will launch Insights, a new platform that makes data from the ZERO Childhood Cancer Program easier to discover, explore and request. Insights was developed through the GUARDIANS Program at Australian BioCommons.

Rahul Ratwatte 21/10/26 Rahul Ratwatte 21/10/26

Building a national rare disease research platform

A new Medical Research Future Fund grant for National Critical Research Infrastructure, announced in July 2026, will expand CaRDinal, a secure, cloud-based platform purpose-built for collaborative rare disease genomic analysis supported by the GUARDIANS Program.

Rahul Ratwatte 15/9/26 Rahul Ratwatte 15/9/26

Connecting complex health datasets for research and translational impact

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.

Rahul Ratwatte 15/9/26 Rahul Ratwatte 15/9/26

Building the Biological Psychiatry Data Commons

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.

Rahul Ratwatte 27/8/26 Rahul Ratwatte 27/8/26

Unlocking multi-omics data to transform cardiovascular precision medicine

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.

Rahul Ratwatte 26/8/26 Rahul Ratwatte 26/8/26

Shaping the next phase of Australian human omics infrastructure

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.

Rahul Ratwatte 21/5/26 Rahul Ratwatte 21/5/26

Global collaboration advancing AI and biomedical data infrastructure

BioCommons brought together research data infrastructure experts from the USA, Finland, New Zealand and across Australia to strengthen the collaborative and technical capability required to build world-class human genomics and biomedical data infrastructure.

Rahul Ratwatte 30/4/26 Rahul Ratwatte 30/4/26

Global genomic data sharing enabled by purpose-built platform

The GUARDIANS program has delivered a solution for secure genomic data movement in partnership with QIMR Berghofer. This collaboration leverages AARNet’s Globus service to facilitate the transfer of massive datasets and strengthen digital research infrastructure, both locally and globally.

Rahul Ratwatte 28/11/25 Rahul Ratwatte 28/11/25

GUARDIANS partners gather in Brisbane to align on national human omics infrastructure

Partners collaborating on the future of Australia’s human omics research data ecosystem gathered in Brisbane this month for their second in-person meeting. This effort is driven by the GUARDIANS program that is delivering digital research infrastructure for human omics data nationally.

Rahul Ratwatte 30/9/25 Rahul Ratwatte 30/9/25

Building a trusted ecosystem to accelerate research: the Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons

A new paper describing the progress and vision of the Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons (ACDC) project has been published in Nature Reviews Cardiology. This national-scale project is designed to accelerate the fight against Australia’s single biggest killer through creating a comprehensive, secure, scalable and internationally integrated data infrastructure.

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