Metabolomics has become a powerful and ubiquitous component of modern biological studies, yet experimental results are often hard to interpret, particularly due to sparse metabolome coverage and annotation ambiguity. Pathway based modelling offers a valuable alternative by building models in which t

A collaborative effort from academia and industry has made a popular protein design software package free for commercial use, removing a significant barrier for biotechnology companies wanting to use the pipeline.

The development of a new national resource is underway that will unite pre-clinical models, data and researchers to better understand mental disorders at the molecular level.

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Are you interested in joining this year’s BioHackathon Europe, but can’t face the long haul flights? You should join the Australian Outpost team who will gather in Melbourne, while checking in regularly with our international colleagues.

Metabolomics has become a powerful and ubiquitous component of modern biological studies, yet experimental results are often hard to interpret, particularly due to sparse metabolome coverage and annotation ambiguity. Pathway based modelling offers a valuable alternative by building models in which t

Learn the fundamentals of long read sequencing and how it can be used to assemble and analyse bacterial genomes. More information Apply

The open-source data platform, Gen3, is able to support robust data ecosystems that are tailor-made for their users. Australian BioCommons is supporting multiple deployments through the GUARDIANS Program, helping national consortia management and share their human omics data holdings between researc

The Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons (ACDC) is launching as a cloud-based research platform built to accelerate the discovery of new risk markers for heart attack and stroke. Join this webinar to hear about its development, the research value of the platform, and future clinical applic

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GPUs are speeding up bioinformatics workflows and making deep learning deep learning tools like AlphaFold possible. Join us for a practical webinar that will get you working with GPUs without the steep learning curve. More information Register

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National partners recently convened for the third GUARDIANS partner meeting to align strategic priorities across Australia's human omics ecosystem. The two-day event was an opportunity to showcase the raft of essential national infrastructure the group is developing which will underpin Australia's ongoing ambitions to support the responsible use of human genomics data in research at scale, and to also plan for the next 2 years of the program.

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A new one-click data transfer feature now connects the Bioplatforms Data Portal directly to Galaxy Australia. Powered by BioCommons Access, this integration lets researchers instantly send large datasets straight to the analysis platform without having to switch.

GUARDIANS program leads and project delivery partners from across Australia gathered this month for the third GUARDIANS partner meeting. Held in Melbourne, the two-day event provided a forum to showcase achievements, discuss challenges, and plan for the future of secure, responsible genomic data inf

The Sydney Informatics Hub and Australian BioCommons have developed a reusable instructor package to support trainers in delivering introductory Nextflow workshops with less preparation.

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Follow a data engineer’s journey in building the infrastructure needed to support a data sharing platform. We’ll cover key concepts in managing the end to end flow of data, and hear what consideration...

GPUs are speeding up bioinformatics workflows and making deep learning deep learning tools like AlphaFold possible. Join us for a practical webinar that will get you working with GPUs without the stee...

The Australian Structural Biology Computing Community is seeking Australian EMCR researchers in structural biology to share their work at a special online meeting.

A hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of RNA-Seq analysis using the Galaxy platform. More information Apply (UQ Staff and Students) Apply (non-UQ)

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Australian Nextflow Seqera Service enables the research community to analyse molecular and biological data at scale. By leveraging Nextflow and the Seqera Platform, and combining the right bioinformatics expertise and computational infrastructure, the service is driving real-world impact.

A new ready-to-use virtual environment offers researchers immediate access to a curated set of bioinformatics tools and datasets. BioShell provides a command line interface that is preconfigured for bioinformatics and uses national computer resources, at no cost to researchers.

Seqera has released a new case study featuring Australian BioCommons: Australian BioCommons Standardizes Bioinformatics and Scales Compute Access Nationwide with Seqera.

This webinar discusses how genomic data is moving from research to the clinic, and why research data infrastructure must pivot to facilitate this important shift. Read more Register

The deep learning-based genome annotation tool, Tiberius, is now available in Galaxy Australia. After being wrapped and extensively tested, it is freely available for everyone’s use in the Genome Lab. 

Australian BioCommons is proud to announce that Dr Sarah Beecroft has been awarded the 2026 Early Career eResearch Excellence Prize by AeRO. The prize recognises Sarah’s excellence in research enablement, technical innovation, collaboration, and community leadership.

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Join this informal and diverse group of Australian proteomics researchers and bioinformaticians online to talk about computational infrastructure and services - all welcome. More information

This webinar discusses how genomic data is moving from research to the clinic, and why research data infrastructure must pivot to facilitate this important shift. Read more Register

Analysis and interpretation of single cell RNAseq (scRNAseq) data requires dedicated workflows. In this hands-on workshop we will show you how to perform single cell RNAseq analysis using a number of tool. More information Apply

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Analysis and interpretation of single cell RNAseq (scRNAseq) data requires dedicated workflows. In this hands-on workshop we will show you how to perform single cell RNAseq analysis using a number of tool. More information Apply

Australian researcher, George Bouras, has recently contributed an extraordinary 17 million protein predictions to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. This work was possible thanks to the availability of the ColabFold tool on Setonix AMD, the result of collaboration between BioCommons and the P

An interactive workshop to help life science researchers use generative AI responsibly and effectively by aligning models to specific research tasks. More information Apply

Learn how to run Nextflow workflows using container images from public registries and local systems for reproducible bioinformatics analyses. More info Register

‘Foundations of protein structure’ is a new self-paced tutorial co-developed by the Australian Structural Biology Computing (ASBC) community and EMBL-EBI to help researchers bridge the gap between theory and practice. The online training module is now freely accessible for any researcher wanting to understand and use protein structures in their work.

GlyCombo is now live on Galaxy Australia as the platform's first dedicated glycomics software tool. This high-throughput workflow, developed by Protea Glycosciences, offers researchers a streamlined, reproducible way to automate glycan identification from complex mass spectrometry data in just a few

Life science research increasingly involves the generation of massive datasets that need to be shared, archived, or moved to high-performance computing envir...