WEBINAR: Australian Microbiome – enabling insights into environmental microbial ecosystems Global microbial atlas initiatives are enabling resolution of the distribution, function, and ecological roles of microorganisms. However, significant geogra...

Webinar recording live! 🧫📽️

Dr Andrew Bissett (@csiro.bsky.social) discusses the Australian Microbiome initiative (@bioplatformsaus.bsky.social) & moving beyond ‘single-use’ data to track microbial responses to climate change across the continent.

Watch now: youtu.be/Ddaid4tPXXI

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WEBINAR: Globus: moving large volumes of research data with ease — Australian BioCommons This webinar introduces Globus as a powerful solution for life science researchers to manage the transfer of massive datasets with ease. Read more Register

Globus provides a high-performance, secure way to transfer large volumes of data within Australia and internationally. Join us, and experts from @aarnet.edu.au, @qimrb.bsky.social and @latrobe.edu.auu.au on 13 May to hear real-world use cases.

Register here: www.biocommons.org.au/events/globu...

WEBINAR: Future of AI in Life Sciences — Australian BioCommons Australian BioCommons is mapping the future of AI in the life sciences. Join the webinar to hear the results of our national consultation and preview our new training program. More information Register

Final call! Join our webinar on 29 April to discover how #AI is shaping the life sciences and get a first look at our 2026 training program.

Register here: www.biocommons.org.au/events/futur...

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AI Tools for Software Development — Australian BioCommons The landscape of AI-assisted development has expanded considerably, and with it, the number of tools competing for a place in our workflows. Hear from BioCommons Data Engineer, Dr Joshua Harris, as he shares his experiences with some of these tools.

Context vs Control: How do you choose your AI dev tools? 🤖💻

BioCommons Data Engineer Dr Josh Harris breaks down the 4 key categories of AI-assisted development, from browser-based apps to AI-native IDEs like #Cursor and #Windsurf.

Read more: www.biocommons.org.au/blogs/ai-too...

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How is the Australian life science community using #AI? Join Minh Huynh & Ben Goudey on 29 April to hear our national consultation results and see our new training plan!

Register here: www.biocommons.org.au/events/futur...

Meet the Team: Mok, UX Designer — Australian BioCommons Our team members bring deep expertise and broad experience. Hear how a UX Designer contributes to the BioCommons mission from Mok.

Building powerful research tools is great, but making them intuitive is where the magic happens!

Meet Mok, our #UX Designer ensuring our infrastructure is easy to use.

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Excited to welcome Dr Michael Geaghan (BioCommons/Sydney Informatics Hub) to our next Bioinformatic Workflows Community Meeting 🧬💻️

He’ll present: "scRNAvigator: Guiding you through single cell RNAseq analysis."

🗓️ 14 April 2026. All welcome!
Agenda & join link: buff.ly/c5oGBPC

March BioCommons update Latest news, events and opportunities.

Want the latest Australian bioinformatics news, events, and training resources? 📬

Our monthly newsletter just dropped! Dive into this month's top stories and infrastructure updates.

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DevOps Engineer - Australian BioCommons Role type: Fixed-Term to Dec 2028 Department/ School: Australian BioCommons Salary: UOM 8 - $125,191 - $135,504 p.a. plus 17% super National digital research impact / Advanced cloud-native DevOps…

We’re hiring! Join Australian BioCommons as a DevOps Engineer 🧬💻

Help us build and operate cloud-native platforms across OpenStack and AWS to power national life science research.

Apply before Sunday 26 April: buff.ly/ge3XiM1

#Bioinformatics #DevOps #CloudNative #ResearchIT #HiringAU

Strengthening Australia’s Nextflow community through local and global collaboration — Australian BioCommons The Sydney satellite of the international nf-core Hackathon brought together members of the Nextflow and nf-core community to work collaboratively on a diverse range of projects.

3 days of coding, collaboration, and open-source science! 💻🧬

We just wrapped the Aussie node of the @nextflow.ai @seqera.io #nfcore Hackathon in Sydney. Our local experts tackled ProteinFold pipelines, built new config tools, and connected with the global community.

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Excited to welcome Dr Kiel Hards to our next #eDNA Community Meeting!

They’ll be presenting: "Streamlining the upload of biodiversity data to global repositories with eDNAbridge."

🗓️ 1 April 2026. All welcome!

Agenda & join link: buff.ly/etOkvhx

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AI for Science Hackathon connects industry with research to accelerate Australian science — Australian BioCommons Australian BioCommons partnered with NVIDIA, Monash University, and national HPC centres to bridge the gap between industry hardware experts and life science researchers.

We teamed up with #NVIDIA #OpenACC @monashuniversity.bsky.social
@nci-australia.bsky.social @pawseycentre.bsky.social #SharonAI on the AI for Science #Hackathon!

Pairing researchers with expert mentors and B200 GPUs to make real progress on computational bottlenecks💻️ 🧬

Read more: buff.ly/NAuvAJn

Excited to welcome Dr. Thilini Jayasinghe (Uni of Sydney) to our next #Microbiome Analysis Community Meeting! 💻️ 🧬

They’ll be presenting: "The vaginal and oral microbiome of women who experienced miscarriage."

🗓️ 24 March. All welcome!

Agenda & join link 🔗 buff.ly/nxVgbOW

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Excited to welcome Dr Rhys Gillman (James Cook Uni) to our next Multiomics Community Meeting 🧬💻️

He’ll be presenting: "Identifying Somatic Variants Using Single Cell DNA Multiomics."

🗓️ 17 March 2026. All welcome!

Agenda & join link: buff.ly/LeEXNw9

#Multiomics #SingleCell

Contributing to open and accessible training with 500+ bioinformatics resources — Australian BioCommons The Galaxy Training Network offers tutorials covering everything from genomics to machine learning. These self-paced resources combine videos and worked examples, allowing researchers to master…

Looking to level up your data analysis skills? 💻🧬

The @galaxyproject.bsky.social Training Network now features 500+ free tutorials (with 37 contributed by our very own BioCommons team!). Plus, all workflows are now integrated with WorkflowHub 🔗 buff.ly/R2oSQoL

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Excited to welcome Dr @katarinastuart.bsky.social (Macquarie University) to our next #Genomics Community Meeting 🧬💻️

She’ll present: "A Beginners Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics."

🗓️ 17 March 2026. All welcome!
Agenda & join link: buff.ly/IlrqHv4

Streamlined Science: Single sign-on with BioCommons Access — Australian BioCommons BioCommons Access launches in late March 2026 to provide a single sign-on for multiple analysis and data services across our ecosystem. This new system will streamline your research workflow by…

Navigating multiple analysis tools shouldn't be a project in itself 🧬💻️

Introducing BioCommons Access: a new SSO ecosystem launching 26 March! Seamlessly connect & transition between #GalaxyAustralia & the @bioplatformsaus.bsky.social Data Portal with just one login.

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Curious about the Bacillus subtilis SpbK antiphage defence system? 🦠

Join Dr Biswa Prasanna Mishra today at 1pm AEDT as the guest speaker for our Australian #StructuralBiology Computing community meeting! Open to all.

Agenda & how to join 🔗 www.biocommons.org.au/events/struc...

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Help Shape the Future of AI in Life Science Research Training Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are rapidly changing the way we work in life science research. To ensure our community is well supported, Australian BioCommons are developing a…

What is your biggest roadblock when using #AI in your research? 🤔

We're designing new national AI & ML training for life scientists and want your input! Join a 60-minute focus group (all experience levels welcome).

⏳ EOIs close THIS FRIDAY, 13 March.
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Accelerating deep learning in Australian structural biology research — Australian BioCommons The Australian Structural Biology Computing community has successfully translated the 2025 national research infrastructure roadmap into a year of impactful training, useful resources and global…

Deep learning is transforming structural biology 🧬🖥️

Find out how the BioCommons-supported ASBC community is helping researchers access the software, HPC, and training needed to run predictive workflows at scale.

Read more 🔗 buff.ly/azVTi2k

#DeepLearning #Bioinformatics @kmichie.bsky.social

WORKSHOP: Unlocking nf-core: customising workflows for your research — Australian BioCommons A practical workshop to set you up with the foundational knowledge required to run and customise nf-core workflows in a reproducible manner. More information Apply here

Ready to scale your #omics research? 🧬💻

Join our hands-on workshop (27-28 May) and learn to run, tweak, and optimise reproducible #bioinformatics workflows for your compute environment!

⏳ Apply by 13 May
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How is Australia responding to the rapid evolution of AI in research? 🧬 🤖

By collaborating 🌍

Read about our recent national roundtable with @bioplatformsaus.bsky.social and @ebi.embl.org and learn how to join our growing AI community to help chart the roadmap 🔗 buff.ly/oNGbVcl

Galaxy Australia’s 14 millionth job was a win for sustainable crop production — Australian BioCommons Galaxy Australia solves the technical bottleneck for molecular biologists who need to perform high-level bioinformatics without dedicated coding expertise.

14 million jobs and counting 🎉

Galaxy Australia's latest milestone was hit by Dr Donald Gardiner (@qaafi.bsky.social), whose research tackles pathogens threatening Aussie crops and native plants 🌾

Find out more 🔗 buff.ly/TzwL6XH
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Help shape the future of AI in life sciences research and training — Australian BioCommons We are inviting community input to help shape the future of AI in life sciences. By participating in our survey and focus groups, you’ll help guide infrastructure priorities and shape our training…

Help shape the future of AI in Aussie life sciences! 🤖🧬

Whether you’re an expert or a complete beginner, we need your input to guide our priorities in this space.

Find out how to take the survey or join a focus group today: buff.ly/PbOWzE6
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February BioCommons update Latest news, events and opportunities

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Our monthly newsletter just dropped! Dive into this month's top stories and infrastructure updates.

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The Technician Commitment: Championing technical skills and careers YouTube video by Australian BioCommons

How do we solve the visibility & career challenges facing our technical workforce? Dr Simon Breeden recently joined us to share brilliant insights from the #TechnicianCommitment. Catch the webinar recording 🔗 youtu.be/LCmIH88JwC8?...
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Empowering wet-lab postgraduate students with computational and communication skills — Australian BioCommons Australian BioCommons team members Dr Giorgia Mori and Dr Benjamin Goudey delivered a session on data visualisation and AI/ML tools as part of EMBL Australia’s 10th annual PhD course.

From #AI to data visualisation! We were delighted to help upskill 60+ PhD students at the @emblaustralia.bsky.social 10th annual #EMBLAPHD course. Experts Ben Goudey & Giorgia Mori delivered training on computational tools & data storytelling #AI #Bioinformatics #ResearchTraining 🔗

Australian BioCommons and Southern eDNA Society partner to deploy national infrastructure — Australian BioCommons Australian BioCommons and the Southern eDNA Society (SeDNAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to acknowledge, and work towards, the shared infrastructure challenges faced by life…

Digital infrastructure for #eDNA!

We’ve signed an MoU with the @sednasociety.bsky.social to tackle the field's 'big data; challenges. Together we are focusing on community consultation, infrastructure roadmaps and training to support eDNA researchers #Bioinformatics #NCRISImpact 🔗

Introducing Spatial Sampler, the ‘cheat sheet’ to answering biological questions — Australian BioCommons A new tool is available to help researchers quickly answer important questions about their spatial omics data. This new resource, called Spatial Sampler, collates example R scripts for a variety of co...

Struggling to find workflows that test real experimental questions? Introducing Spatial Sampler - a collection of 'How-To' guides to fast-track your #SpatialOmics analysis. Developed by Sarah Williams (QCIF) to fill the gap between basic QC and complex answers www.biocommons.org.au/news/spatial...

Solving the big international bioinformatics challenges from the comfort of home — Australian BioCommons Australian bioinformaticians joined ELIXIR's BioHackathon Europe via a Melbourne outpost to tackle global challenges in phylogenomics, long-read transcriptomics, and biodiversity metadata.

We tackled phylogenomics, long-read transcriptomics & FAIR metadata, all from Melbourne! 🇦🇺 Read the full wrap-up of our @elixir-europe.org #BioHackEU2025 Australian Outpost, where 16 local experts contributed to global open science projects. 💻🧬 #Bioinformatics www.biocommons.org.au/news/biohack...