BioCommons quarterly digest

Welcome to our quarterly digest of Australian BioCommons news, project updates and opportunities. This is a summary of the last three monthly newsletters, which you can subscribe to receive straight to your email inbox.

Top stories from October, November and December

BioCommons Annual Snapshot | 2023-24

We’re proud to share this snapshot of our efforts across the 2023-24 financial year to enhance analysis of life science data through provision of national research infrastructure. Thank you to everyone who has contributed!

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Australian meeting strengthens international ties in human genomics

A large group seized the rare opportunity to meet face-to-face created by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Plenary held in Melbourne. Many members gathered to explore shared challenges, common interests and opportunities to deepen ties for mutual benefit.

Learn more about this gathering of research infrastructure specialists

Australian Outpost of BioHackathon Europe connects researchers to help shape global bioinformatics advances

The diverse Outpost team contributed to global bioinformatics advancements while growing their professional networks with representatives from Children's Cancer Institute , 澳大利亚悉尼大学 's Sydney Informatics Hub, Galaxy Australia, 澳大利亚墨尔本大学 , 澳大利亚科廷科技大学 , 澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚大学 , Melbourne Bioinformatics, University of Melbourne , 澳大利亚昆士兰科技大学 and Symbio Labs.

Learn more about how they contributed

New faces

Please join us in welcoming Giorgia Mori , Nakul Deshmukh and Yassaman Alavi to the BioCommons team! That makes 8 new faces for the whole year welcomed into the BioCommons Hub including Conrad Leonard , Kylie Davies , Samitha Amarapathy, Gareth Price and Georgie Samaha

Other news you may have missed

• We shared our 2023-2028 strategic plan
• The first dataset from Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute arrived into the Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons
• Southern Cross University researchers Locedie Manseuto and Ramil Mauleon accessed National Computational Infrastructure 's Gadi supercomputer via our ABLeS program to develop a new multi-omics resource
• We welcomed Ewan Birney , Deputy Director General of EMBL and Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI , to share his views on exploring opportunities in Life Sciences AI as part of a visit down under hosted by Bioplatforms Australia and EMBL Australia

You can read all the news on our website at any time.

Watch our latest recordings

Catch a series of Top Tips from the Galaxy Australia team in our Galaxy Australia playlist. The team answer common questions and share tricks to get the most out of your data analysis journey!

Join Hossein Valipour Kahrood from 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学 's Genomics and Bioinformatics Platform, and Cali Willet from the Sydney Informatics Hub at 澳大利亚悉尼大学 as they help you make sense of gene and protein lists with functional enrichment analysis.

Work in the machine learning space? Don't miss Fotis Psomopoulos from ELIXIR and Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) as he explains DOME - best practices and recommendations for reporting on machine learning in biological studies.

Watch Ziad Al-Bkhetan launch our new Australian Nextflow Seqera Service at the ABACBS - Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society National Seminar Series, featuring pilot project participants Magdalena Antczak ( QCIF ) and Marek Cmero ( WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) ).

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