News
Subscribe to the Australian BioCommons monthly newsletter or read previous editions
‘R’-eaching for the sky: facilitating R training in the Cloud
R and RStudio are popular tools for robust and flexible data analysis but getting started can be daunting. Find out how we’re supporting life scientists on their R learning journey with collaborative training supported by access to cloud computing.
Galaxy Australia to host next year's international Galaxy Community Conference
The Galaxy Community Conference is coming to Brisbane after years of campaigning by the Galaxy Australia team to bring this international event to our shores. GCC2023 will bring together hundreds of researchers, trainers, tool developers, software engineers, and computational infrastructure providers, from all over the world. This unique meeting offers a range of ways to exchange information about using the Galaxy data integration and analysis platform for data intensive science.
Bioinformatics training for researchers striving to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
We are thrilled to announce that Menzies School of Health Research is joining our National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative. We hope to support the Northern Territory-based medical research institute in its ambition to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Help us make the BioHackathon global!
Are you interested in joining this year’s Biohackathon Europe - but from Australia? BioCommons is hosting the Australian Outpost so we are putting together a team who will work with the international participants in their timezone - but from a city close to home.
Adding Australian life science research’s voice to global conversations
BioCommons attended this month’s ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Amsterdam, presenting work on behalf of national collaborators and sharing the Australian perspective on the shared needs and challenges facing bioinformatics and computational infrastructures.
Galaxy Australia featured in new publication about impact
Australian Research Data Commons has published a new impact booklet documenting how digital research infrastructure ensures Australian researchers are internationally competitive, including Galaxy Australia as a case study.
Ready-made training environments for uplifting computational science skills in plant biosecurity
Molecular biologists and plant pathologists recently came together to learn how to use Galaxy Australia to implement small RNA sequencing for the detection of viruses and viroids in imported plants at the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s Post Entry Quarantine (PEQ) Facility.
Participating in the global ecosystem of responsible human genomics data analysis
Members of the BioCommons team have recently returned from the US where they progressed our mission to establish infrastructure for human genome sharing and analysis in Australia and to deliver technical solutions to help researchers actively participate in global research collaborations. Visiting the Gen3 team at the University of Chicago, the CAVATICA team at the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Terra team at the Broad Institute, the opportunity to share ambitions, plans and ideas with our international partners was extremely valuable.
Finding and reusing workflows made simple
In an effort to support the discovery and reuse of workflows, Australian BioCommons has established a presence on WorkflowHub. BioCommons and its partners have so far registered 31 workflows which have already accumulated more than 16,000 views and 250 downloads.
Participating in a National Approach to Genomic Information Management
Australian BioCommons took part in the development of prototype components of the proposed National Approach to Genomic Information Management research ecosystem. The collaborative submission made by our Human Genomes Platform Project and the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research’s returned very favourable reviews in the Preliminary Implementation Recommendations to the Australian Government (April 2022) recently released by Australian Genomics.