A new investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Australian BioCommons and multiple partner organisations will transform how human genomics data for research is shared by bringing the best global technologies and standards to Australia. Through this new project, genomic data from thousands of Australians will be able to be shared securely and responsibly on national and global scales, enabling comparison with very large numbers of other genomes to ensure their full research value can be realised.

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The Australian BioCommons is proud to announce the signing of a contract with Bioplatforms Australia to deliver enhanced coordination in the planning and development of research infrastructure supporting bioinformatics in life science research. The $20M NCRIS investment will improve the ability of many of Australia’s best researchers to undertake leading edge bioinformatics analyses. The Australian BioCommons is partnering with a network of Australian and global bioinformatics and data intensive research groups to address high priority challenges through to 2023.

A new Collaboration Strategy between ELIXIR and the Australian BioCommons seeks to create a cooperative plan to exploit international synergies between the two research infrastructures. This three-year collaboration will actively involve Australian BioCommons in many of the activities related to the European life science infrastructures.

Industry-leading bioinformatics ecosystem provider, Seven Bridges, sparked international interest this week in the multinational genomic cancer research project that Australian BioCommons contributes to. Their media release Seven Bridges Announces International Collaboration Focused on Personalized Treatment for Kids with Cancer documented how our collaboration will help researchers better understand rare pediatric brain cancer subtypes and improve interventions for patients and their families. Working with Seven Bridges, The Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center (Kids First DRC), ZERO Childhood Cancer (ZERO), the Children’s Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium (CBTTC) and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), we are establishing internationally federated computational infrastructure that will enable the harmonisation of pediatric cancer data from ZERO Australia with the extensive genomic datasets from CBTTC and Kids First DRC.