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Strategic talks bring BioCommons Hub team together in Melbourne
The BioCommons Hub team will soon meet in Melbourne in October to reflect on our rapid ‘growing up’ and plan for our busy future.
BioCommons team and projects well represented at eResearch Australasia 2022
The BioCommons team will be attending the 2022 eResearch Australasia Conference and sharing details of a wide range of our collaborative current activities.
Enabling reproducible and portable workflows: Janis
As part of the Australian BioCommons ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Expansion Project, a specialised framework is under development that creates simple workflow definitions that enables researchers and clinicians to work with different workflow languages.
Global solutions are built on strong international connections
The Galaxy Australia team has been taking up opportunities to join the international Galaxy community in-person around the world. After years of working intensively online at all hours of the night, it is a joy to be able to meet up with global team members.
Launching the Australian AlphaFold Service
A new service is now offering researchers the chance to accelerate their research through access to AlphaFold. The Australian AlphaFold Service delivers AlphaFold through Galaxy Australia, offering an easy to use interface coupled with the required computational resources at no cost to Australian researchers.
Uncovering the secrets of parasites through AI and Cloud computing
A partnership between Australian BioCommons and Microsoft has resulted in University of Melbourne researchers being able to quickly leverage new methods through a large grant to use the Azure Cloud, with significant implications for the research community worldwide.
Join a community of data wranglers: large and complex research datasets in the cloud
To ensure bioscientists have access to essential data and tools, we've partnered with the Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, USA. Working with the team behind the open-source data platform, Gen3, several data commons are currently being tailor-made for use by large numbers of Australian researchers working across national consortia. We're co-hosting the inaugural online Gen3 Community Forum 11-13 Oct and you're invited!
Data management solutions designed for Australian bioscience
Life sciences researchers are benefiting from the nifty integration that allows secure data transfer between Galaxy Australia and CloudStor. The streamlined movement of data between the two freely-available platforms demonstrates how collaboration between services are meeting the needs of Australian life science researchers.
Popularity of Galaxy Australia prompts move of core services to AARNet
Galaxy Australia has moved its head node and associated services to Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) to allow increased on-demand support for more users. This move provides a long-term, high-performing and reliable hosting environment for Galaxy Australia infrastructure.
New reports provide insights into what's needed for better sharing of human genomics research data in Australia
Insights from the Human Genomes Platform Project (HGPP) knowledge discovery phase have recently been published online. This ensures that knowledge is shared with others who will follow on the complicated path of sharing human genomics research data.