Australian BioCommons

Fantastic news, congratulations Tony Burdett! We're looking forward to continuing to interact with BioFAIR UK on their journey to establish digital research infrastructure for UK #lifescience researchers

It's that time of year - the festive edition of our quarterly digest is out! With international visits from EMBL, ELIXIR and more, exciting local opportunities and jam packed with fantastic #training videos, there's something in here for everyone! Happy reading, and let us know your favourite part in the comments! #bioinformatics #news

Join us in April for a #bioinformatics training workshop on retrieving data from the European Nucleotide Archive. Dr Joana Castro Paupério and Maira Ihsan will introduce the ENA data and metadata model and data retrieval tools, the guide you through retrieving a range of data types using a variety of tools and protocols that you can apply to your #lifescience research needs! Attendance is fully subsidised, but registrations are essential https://lnkd.in/gnewZR9T #training #workshop #nucleotide

Calling all Australian life scientists who submit data to the European Nucleotide Archive! We're running a series of workshops in 2025 covering the various ways to submit data - choose those most relevant to you! Maira Ihsan and Dr Joana Castro Paupério from European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI are travelling down under to run these workshops among other activities, register now for your place 👇 https://lnkd.in/gfrssQZW #bioinformatics #data #nucleotide #lifeciences

Last month a diverse group of Australian researchers gathered in Brisbane for the latest edition of ELIXIR’s BioHackathon Europe. Thanks to our ongoing collaboration agreement 🤝 our keen group had a powerful opportunity to shape global bioinformatics advancements, while networking with others both at home and abroad. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gYJn8z7U The group included representatives from Children's Cancer Institute, Sydney Informatics Hub at the University of Sydney, Melbourne Bioinformatics, University of Melbourne, Curtin University, the Threatened Species Initiative, University of Tasmania, Symbio Laboratories and QUT (Queensland University of Technology) University of Melbourne Masters student George He shared more about his experience in our community blog, check it out here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gBZeiNnU

With Bioplatforms Australia and EMBL Australia, we recently hosted Prof Ewan Birney, Deputy Director General of EMBL and Director the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI in Melbourne to share his views in a workshop: Exploring opportunities in Life Sciences #AI. The visit strengthened our connection with EMBL and has led to ongoing discussions about future cooperation. Stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/gtVzjReH #collaboration #workshop

Australian members of the International Cannabis Genomics Research Consortium have released a web platform for data sharing, hosting and analysis that is freely available for the global cannabis research community to use! Read how our ABLeS program supported Locedie Mansueto's PhD research to develop #genomic resources like the ~100 million #SNPs that make up the CannSeek database ABLeS enables researchers to access #HPC like National Computational Infrastructure's Gadi supercomputer, which was instrumental according to Ramil Mauleon #bioinformatics #multiomics Southern Cross University https://lnkd.in/gEMvvMaN

Missed Richard Edwards' presentation? Head to the Genomics Community meeting rolling agenda to find the recording 👇 You'll also find a link to join the Google Group and stay in the loop for meetings kicking off again in 2025! https://lnkd.in/gNHvmNAz Thanks again Rich for sharing with everyone! #genomics #bioinformatics

🧑🔬 Discover how AI can revolutionise scientific work at this free hybrid workshop hosted by Google Developers Group and CSIRO: https://bit.ly/40Sq71S Join us on 27 November to explore how AI, particularly Large Language Model (LLM) agents, can transform research tasks like literature reviews, summarisation, and information extraction. You'll hear from experts: • Astitva Chopra (AI for Science Program Manager, Google) • Dr Qinghua Lu (Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO's Data61) • Dr Sarvnaz Karimi, PhD Karimi (Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO's Data61) • Dr Stefan Harrer, PhD Harrer (Director, AI for Science, CSIRO's Data61) • Mr Jasper Wang (Lead Customer Engineer for Research and Higher Education, Google) There will also be a demonstration of Gemini 1.5 Pro. Register now and explore the transformative potential of AI in science: https://bit.ly/40Sq71S #AI #LLM #science #research Scott Riddle, Heather Tompkins, Dr Rebecca Michael

🚨 Job alert! Join us and SIH at the University of Sydney as Senior Bioinformatician! You'll contribute to a wide array of projects across #HPC, #bioinformatics and data engineering, plus develop and deliver training events Apply before 4 Dec 👇 https://lnkd.in/gCV3xQzp #hiring #jobs #bioinformatician #training