Australian BioCommons took part in the development of prototype components of the proposed National Approach to Genomic Information Management research ecosystem. The collaborative submission made by our Human Genomes Platform Project and the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research’s returned very favourable reviews in the Preliminary Implementation Recommendations to the Australian Government (April 2022) recently released by Australian Genomics.
Read MoreThe Galaxy Australia team is thrilled to be jetting off to GCC2022 in the USA in July. The chance to meet up in person with the vibrant global Galaxy community has been sorely missed during the past couple of years, so members of the Galaxy Australia team jumped at the chance to discuss their work at the upcoming conference. Check out the wide range of presentations being made by the Australian contingent.
The Biomedical Data Asset will combine two of Australia’s most important biomedical data sets into one user-friendly and accessible environment for the researcher community. The project wants your help to guide the Biomedical Data Asset’s development by sharing the data types, tools, portals and databases your research needs.
Next month’s RDA's 19th Plenary will see the launch the new RDA Life Science Data Infrastructures Interest Group, co-chaired by Australian BioCommons.
Read MoreThe Australian BioCommons is enabling rapid insights into life science community data assets using high end computing through its Australian BioCommons Leadership Share, also known as ABLeS. Working to facilitate researchers’ use of Australia’s national computing facilities, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, ABLeS offers computational resources, specialist expertise, centrally supported tools and software through and a shared repository of tools and software, tailored to support the generation of valuable data assets.
Read MoreYou may have already noticed a new streamlined interface when submitting your latest job to Galaxy Australia. If not, it’s time to check out the refreshed Galaxy Australia landing page!
Important functions in Galaxy Australia have been streamlined, including access to the tutorial library and support requests for tools and data.
Read MoreIn community consultations the Australian BioCommons heard the need to enhance the discoverability of bioinformatics software: our response is ToolFinder.
Read MoreIn response to requests from the Genome Annotation community for automatic genome annotation pipelines, BioCommons has made Fgenesh++ available for use by Australian researchers.
Read MoreJust as our breadth of projects and services are evolving and expanding, so too is the BioCommons team. The past few months have seen people step into new roles and the welcome addition of some new faces.
Read MoreThe Australian BioCommons, ABACBS and the ARDC Software Program recently co-hosted a wide-ranging panel discussion, Improve visibility of research software for career advancement.
The panel shared their experiences of developing, sharing code and software at various stages of their careers. The lively discussion resulted in a recording and resource list for sharing with the community.
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