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Mentor program breaking down barriers with Nextflow/nf-core
With researchers continuing to have more and more data to process and analyse, Dr Georgina Samaha is aiming to break down barriers that inhibit researchers from accessing the compute resources they need during her Nextflow/nf-core mentorship.
Announcing the inaugural Simon Gladman Travel Grant
The Simon Gladman Travel Grant is an annual award to honour Simon’s legacy as an innovator, role model, supporter and community connector, and will support Australian citizens who are travelling to participate in a Galaxy community event.
Funding awarded to develop an Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons
Development of the Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons (ACDC) is underway thanks to a successful Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Critical Research Infrastructure bid, with $3M awarded. The ACDC will provide researchers with access to pooled data from over 400,000 individuals across more than 18 clinical cohorts within Australia.
New partnership ensures sustainability of DReSA training registry
The Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA) national training registry has found a home in a new national partnership between Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey) and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
The international genetics and genomics community comes to Melbourne
Meet us at booth 27 of the 23rd International Congress of Genetics, which is being held in Melbourne, Australia from 16-21 July 2023. You can find out about our activities in building bioinformatics infrastructure to support human health, agricultural and environmental science research, and discuss the challenges researchers face. We’ll showcase the services that the BioCommons and our partners offer and we would love to hear your feedback!
Gen3 Community Forum to showcase how the BioCommons uses Gen3
We help convene the international Gen3 Community Forum, and the next online event ‘Data Modeling in Gen3 Data Commons’ is coming up on Friday July 7, 6.30 am AEST. Our Human Genomics Data Specialist, Marion Shadbolt, will deliver a presentation on streamlining Gen3 data dictionaries.
Genome Lab: The new online workbench for easier data analysis
The new Galaxy Australia Genome Lab is now available for use by the Australian genomics community. This customised, user-friendly workbench provides rapid access to a range of sophisticated resources needed for genome assembly and annotation.
New community uplifts bioinformatics trainers in Australia
Australian BioCommons is launching a new community to uplift bioinformatics trainers in Australia. The National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative brings together training providers, managers, (current and aspiring) trainers around collaborative events that connect trainers and create new opportunities in bioinformatics training.
Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR announce extension of collaboration strategy to 2028
The European life science data infrastructure, ELIXIR, has renewed its collaboration strategy with Australian BioCommons. Both organisations work to further open access to resources to understand the molecular basis of life and have been collaborating for many years. The current collaboration strategy was formally marked at June’s ELIXIR All Hands meeting in Dublin, which included a plenary presentation by Australian BioCommons Deputy Director, Jeff Christiansen.
Cultivating community management skills with the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement
The Australian BioCommons recently contracted the CSCCE to offer their popular Community Engagement Fundamentals course to the Australian research infrastructure workforce.