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National collaboration advances computing power for bioinformatics
Australian BioCommons has entered into an access agreement the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre boosting access to high end supercomputing for life science research nationally.
Galaxy Australia goes warp speed: 6 million jobs, new features and the team goes to GCC2023!
Over 6 million jobs have been submitted and more than 75,000 workflows have been run on Galaxy Australia by researchers demonstrating the platform's immense value in facilitating research across a range of fields. Hear about what the team has been up to at GCC2023.
Local conference striving to make data analysis easier
The annual meeting of the global Galaxy community is coming to Brisbane in July, offering a great chance to learn more about Galaxy, how people are using it for their research, and what goes on behind the scenes with Galaxy infrastructure.
Powering bioinformatics training with (free) computational infrastructure
The computational infrastructure needed to run data analysis training is now readily available at no cost to Australian educators and researchers. Galaxy Australia has a simple offer: you provide the training, we provide the infrastructure and support. Their "Training Infrastructure as a Service”, or TIaaS, makes training simpler to organise and run.
Cracking the code of Australia's most invasive species
We are proud to support the Australian Pest Genome Partnership through which we, along with partners CSIRO and ARDC, work towards making genomic data more easily accessible and usable to support industry, government and the scientific community in managing pests. This project will ultimately share the genomic data that will underpin species-specific management of pests & weeds in the future. Interactive browsing and collaborative curation of the assembled and annotated genomes will be available via the Australian Apollo Service.
New podcast: Meet the RDA Life Sciences Infrastructure Interest Group
Our own Dr Jeff Christiansen has been featured on a podcast in a discussion about research data management. As a Chair of the international RDA Life Sciences Infrastructure Interest Group, he spoke about what challenges, and potential impacts and outputs the group is working towards.
Learn new biological data analysis skills at this free online global training event
The Galaxy Training Network’s Smörgåsbord is a 5-day, 24/7 training event that is completely free, and covers a wide range of topics. This popular global training event includes foundations of data science, genomics, proteomics, machine learning, single-cell analysis, metagenomics, cancer analysis, SARS-CoV-2 analysis, ecology, climate science, RO-crates, and much much more!
Creating healthy research data ecosystems in the cloud
The next Gen3 Community online event will provide guidance in standing up, configuring, and maintaining your own data commons in multiple clouds. BioCommons is co-hosting the online session on “How to Set Up a Gen3 Data Commons Using Helm Charts” on 2 Mar 2023 (Australian time).