Galaxy Australia provides Australian researchers access to a rich catalogue of computational resources - now including the GPU clusters required to power AlphaFold. Seizing the opportunity to further democratise access to this useful tool, the Galaxy Australia team got to work to make AlphaFold 2.0 available in Galaxy.
Read MoreThe capability to securely and responsibly share human genome research data nationally and internationally will be enhanced by the new Australian BioCommons project “Global Technologies and Standards for Sharing Human Genome Research Data”, known as the Human Genomes Platform Project.
Experts in human genomics from many of Australia’s largest human genome sequencing and analysis efforts have formed a new team that will deliver fundamental improvements in data management and drive access to new capabilities that will enable new science from valuable genomic data.
Read MoreThe National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative is thrilled to welcome onboard the South Australian Genomics Centre.
Read MoreThe Galaxy Australia service is being chosen by large numbers of researchers from around Australia to complete their bioinformatics analyses. Rapid uptake of the service has seen millions of jobs submitted across a broad spectrum of critical research questions with hard-hitting outcomes for the real world.
Here we highlight the work of Dr Rhys Parry, who recently submitted the three millionth job to Galaxy Australia. Rhys has used Galaxy Australia extensively - first for his PhD work in virus discovery and transcriptome assembly, and now for RNA-Seq analysis and assembly of SARS-CoV-2 genomes.
Read MoreIn an Australian first, our national research infrastructures are creating a new digital atlas to allow researchers to easily discover and work with genomic data. To consolidate Australia’s genomic data and make it available for researchers to use, the Atlas of Living Australia, Bioplatforms Australia, Australian BioCommons and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funded via the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) are collaborating on the Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA).
Read MoreThe Establishing Gen3 to enable better Human Genome Data sharing in Australia project has been completed as part of the BioCommons’ Human Genome Informatics Initiative.
The project laid the necessary groundwork required for Zero Childhood Cancer and University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research to establish systems for easier management and sharing of their human genome data holdings, and to also ensure that other Australian providers and institutions can easily deploy the same solution in the future.
An upcoming webinar will share the challenges and opportunities that have arisen through this Australian BioCommons project and demonstrate the capabilities of Gen3 and how it can support the management of human genome data for research purposes.
Read MoreProteomics often relies heavily on proprietary software, making access and the provision of training to university students challenging. Dr Matt Padula shares how his use of the open source MaxQuant software in Galaxy Australia has improved his proteomics training at UTS and simplified his own proteomics analysis. While Galaxy Australia has provided Matt with the tools, workflows and training infrastructure he needed, he has also joined an active international community using Galaxy for proteomics.
Read MoreCollaborative activities between Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR have expanded rapidly since the signing of the three year ELIXIR - Australian BioCommons Collaboration Strategy in 2020. The interactions so far have been productive, friendly and insightful and span an impressive breadth and depth of topics. Some of our ELIXIR peers that are actively involved in BioCommons collaborations will join us at the BioCommons Showcase 2021.
Read MoreThere are so many communities, forums and meetings full of excellent people doing great things while training researchers. Now that most have switched to online meetings we are grabbing the opportunity to connect with specialised groups of experts from around the globe. We'd love you to come along and get involved too!
Read MoreThe close relationship between Australian BioCommons and ELIXIR Europe has led to a successful collaboration with the data science training community in Australia. An active working group with members from organisations from around Australia used funding provided by ARDC and Pawsey to deliver the tailor-made Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA), based on ELIXIR’s TeSS. DReSA aims to make it easier for learners, trainers, and training providers to find digital research skills-focused educational events and resources in Australasia.
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