Community driven enhancements to Nextflows’ nf-core proteinfold pipeline have simplified the parallel execution, visualisation and comparison of multiple models for protein structure prediction including AlphaFold2, ColabFold, ESMFold.
Read MoreAn enthusiastic new user recently submitted the lucky 11 millionth data analysis job to the Galaxy Australia platform. Plant Bacteriologist Dr Toni Chapman has begun regularly using the fully-subsidised service for her genome assemblies of bacteria important to agricultural plant biosecurity and production.
Read MoreTechnical specialists at Australian BioCommons used the Globus service over the AARNet network to rapidly migrate 15 TB of research data for the Apollo platform with minimal disruption.
Read MoreA passionate group of structural biologists has formed the Australian Structural Biology Computing Community, to share computational knowledge, methods, and resources.
Read MoreThe “Optimising MAGs-building workflows hackathon” is taking place in October and we want to know if you’d like to join! An international group is participating in Europe, and BioCommons is planning to offer a complementary event in Australia. Please join us if you are interested in enhancing MAGs-building workflows, developing user-friendly training materials, advancing workflow evaluation methods, or building intelligent computational resource estimation tools.
Read MoreQCIF Ltd has made high-performance hardware available to the Australian BioCommons, giving the hardware a second life and uplifting national capacity for running AlphaFold 2 jobs in Galaxy Australia while supporting innovation through other GPU-enabled tools.
Read MoreBioCommons’ Nextflow for the life sciences workshop heralds a return of our dispersed model of hands-on training. By connecting supported in person satellite sites with online trainers this workshop enables access to Nextflow experts and fosters local connections that are essential for continued learning.
Read MoreMicrobiology Lab offers a customised, user-friendly view of Galaxy Australia that provides rapid access to popular tools, workflows and compute for analysis and visualisation of microbiomes and omics data from microbial isolates.
Read MoreA new paper Nature Scientific Data from a BioCommons lead author describes the public and inclusive registry dedicated specifically to the sharing of computational workflows: WorkflowHub.
Read MoreA series of webinars will feature Australian researchers from across academia and industry sharing their experiences of using AI in the life sciences. Hear how AI is being used to push boundaries, solve problems, and reimagine the way we do science. From multi-omics analysis to drug discovery, structural biology and the ethics of AI in science, these free events will explore diverse and practical applications across the life sciences, focusing on the stories, insights, and experiences behind the research.
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