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Removing barriers: academia and industry collaborate to open commercial access to protein design software
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.
Invitation to present your structural biology research
The Australian Structural Biology Computing Community is seeking Australian EMCR researchers in structural biology to share their work at a special online meeting.
Collaborating globally to develop a foundational structural biology training module
‘Foundations of protein structure’ is a new self-paced training module developed in collaboration with the Australian Structural Biology Computing (ASBC) community and EMBL-EBI to help researchers bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Key molecular structure prediction datasets now available in the new Structural Biology AI Reference Collection
The prediction and analysis of protein structure by Australian researchers has been accelerated by the publication of the Structural Biology AI Reference Collection at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
Accelerating deep learning in Australian structural biology research
The Australian Structural Biology Computing community has successfully translated the 2025 national research infrastructure roadmap into a year of impactful training, useful resources and global collaborations.
Key elements to unlocking deep learning for structural biology identified by the Australian research community
The Australian Structural Biology Deep-Learning Infrastructure Roadmap outlines key deliverables that will expedite the availability and accessibility of structural biology approaches to researchers nationwide.
Multi-model 3D visualisation enhances Nextflow pipeline for protein structure prediction
Community driven enhancements to Nextflows’ nf-core proteinfold pipeline have simplified the parallel execution, visualisation and comparison of multiple models for protein structure prediction including AlphaFold2, ColabFold, ESMFold.
An Australian community for computational structural biology
A passionate group of structural biologists has formed the Australian Structural Biology Computing Community, to share computational knowledge, methods, and resources.
Repurposed hardware boosts national capacity and powers innovation
QCIF Ltd has made high-performance hardware available to the Australian BioCommons, giving the hardware a second life and uplifting national capacity for running AlphaFold 2 jobs in Galaxy Australia while supporting innovation through other GPU-enabled tools.