November edition

This newsletter edition follows a special few days where the BioCommons Coordination Hub converged in person at the 澳大利亚悉尼大学 . Together with our funders, Bioplatforms Australia , we looked back on the achievements of the first five years of BioCommons and set ambitious goals for the next phase - stay tuned to hear more in this space. BioCommons members, Sydney Informatics Hub, joined us to share their reflections on the value BioCommons projects have brought to their organisation and the research community. We hope you enjoy this edition as much as we enjoyed gathering together!

New online tutorials embed genomics into conservation management decisions

Discover how the Threatened Species Initiative's new online course promises to increase the use of genetic data in?Australian conservation management.

Australian satellite of BioHackathon Europe 2023 underscores the universal language of scientific collaboration

Learn more?about how we bridged the geographical gap and enabled?an Australian team?to once again join ELIXIR 's BioHackathon Europe remotely.

User?experience insights help design better services for researchers

It’s right there in the URL usegalaxy.org.au: How do you use Galaxy Australia?

Preview the?Australian Reference Genome Atlas

The ARGA service is a new way to discover valuable genomic data from species relevant to Australia. Learn more by watching the preview?of this foundational research infrastructure.

Bringing Seqera Platform to Australian researchers

Discover the latest progress on providing Australian researchers with a centralised command post for Nextflow workflows.

Have your say

• Do you use Nectar Research Cloud? The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) want to hear how you use it, and how you would like to use it in the future. Survey closes Dec 14, 2023.
• Planning to attend the 2024 Galaxy Community Conference in Brno, Czech Republic? Have your say on which topics?should?be included in the workshop sessions.

BioCommons strengthens connections with the Asia-Pacific region

Read how we have strengthened connections with the Asia-Pacific region and showcased our training capabilities and services at the 22nd International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCOB) hosted by the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNET) in Brisbane.

Did you hear? Last month we announced a funding boost that is bringing game-changing growth to BioCommons.

The funding will enable BioCommons to deliver in three key areas: BioCloud, Australian Tree of Life Data Laboratories and GUARDIANS.

Read the?announcement about Bioplatforms Australia's new NCRIS funding.

New framework?to?improve effectiveness and inclusivity of life science training

Learn how a?first-of-its-kind framework?advocates for actions that will improve the effectiveness and inclusivity?of professional development in the life sciences and beyond.

Upcoming bioinformatics training and events

Further information and registrations

MEETING: Workflows Community Initiative -?FAIR computational workflows

• 8 Dec, 1:30 pm?- 2:30 pm AEDT

MEETING: Single cell and spatial omics?community

• 13 Dec, 2?- 3:30 pm?AEDT

FORUM: Connections in computational proteomics

• 30 Jan 2024, 12?- 5 pm AEDT
• 31 Jan 2024, 8:30 - 11 am AEDT

WORKSHOP: Genetic outlier analysis

• 27 and 28 Feb 2024, 11 am - 4 pm AEDT

Further information and registrations

This month's publications

BioCommons services were acknowledged in eight publications from November, plus BioCommons co-authors published the Bicycle Principles. Here's two that caught our eye:

1. The powerful proteomics tool MaxQuant is made available in?Galaxy Australia, where it was used by authors from 澳大利亚悉尼科技大学 to?investigate?the optimal culture supplement to grow?stem cells in 3D environments.?(3D?is more representative of the human body than traditional 2D cultures).
2. Authors from The University of Western Australia undertook a structural analysis of mitochondrial tRNA (transfer RNA) import in the flowering plant family?arabidopsis,?enabled by?the Australian AlphaFold Service.

Browse all the publications enabled by BioCommons services

Recent uploads:

• Webinar delivered by Tony Burdett at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
• The new online course, Conservation Genomics for Threatened Species Management, prepared by the Threatened Species Initiative
• A preview of the Australian Reference Genome Atlas

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Australian BioCommons is enabled by NCRIS through Bioplatforms Australia support.