The Biomedical Data Asset will combine two of Australia’s most important biomedical data sets into one user-friendly and accessible environment for the researcher community. The project wants your help to guide the Biomedical Data Asset’s development by sharing the data types, tools, portals and databases your research needs.

Next month’s RDA's 19th Plenary will see the launch the new RDA Life Science Data Infrastructures Interest Group, co-chaired by Australian BioCommons.

The Australian BioCommons is enabling rapid insights into life science community data assets using high end computing through its Australian BioCommons Leadership Share, also known as ABLeS. Working to facilitate researchers’ use of Australia’s national computing facilities, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, ABLeS offers computational resources, specialist expertise, centrally supported tools and software through and a shared repository of tools and software, tailored to support the generation of valuable data assets.

In community consultations the Australian BioCommons heard the need to enhance the discoverability of bioinformatics software: our response is ToolFinder.

In response to requests from the Genome Annotation community for automatic genome annotation pipelines, BioCommons has made Fgenesh++ available for use by Australian researchers.

Just as our breadth of projects and services are evolving and expanding, so too is the BioCommons team. The past few months have seen people step into new roles and the welcome addition of some new faces.

The Australian BioCommons, ABACBS and the ARDC Software Program recently co-hosted a wide-ranging panel discussion, Improve visibility of research software for career advancement.

The panel shared their experiences of developing, sharing code and software at various stages of their careers. The lively discussion resulted in a recording and resource list for sharing with the community.