A new digital capability to enhance Australian research.

Digital technologies are proving transformational for the life sciences. The Australian Bioinformatics Commons (BioCommons) is an ambitious new digital capability that will enhance Australian research in its ability to understand the molecular basis of life across environmental, agricultural and biomedical science.

This large-scale investment in digital infrastructure will ensure Australian life science research remains globally competitive, providing access to the tools, methods and training researchers require to respond to national challenges such as food security, environmental conservation and disease treatments.

The BioCommons will deliver a new capabilities for the estimated 30,000 publicly funded bioscience researchers in Australia, including bioinformatics services via Galaxy Australia, genome annotation and assembly services and a global data commons in the first instance. We are working with our technology partners to enable access to these via a cloud infrastructure termed the ‘BioCloud’.

Bioplatforms is providing investment in the leadership of the BioCommons such that these services are delivered in partnership with a network of Australian and global bioinformatics and data intensive research groups to ensure Australian researchers can interpret increasingly complex outputs from Bioplatforms genome sequencing, proteomic and metabolic platforms.

Partnering for the future of Life Sciences

  • ARDC

    The Australian Research Data Commons is supporting:

    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
    • Delivering impact to Australian Researchers by participating in a Global Data Commons
    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
    • Founding partners in the 2019 Pathfinder Project

     

  • AARNet

    AARNet are supporting:

    • Data movement
    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
    • Founding partners in the 2019 Pathfinder Project
  • AAF

    AARNet are supporting:

    • Data movement
    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
    • Founding partners in the 2019 Pathfinder Project
  • Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

    The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is supporting:

    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
  • NCI

    NCI Australia is supporting:

    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
    • Developing systems for non-model organism de novo genome assembly and annotation
  • QCIF

    QCIF is supporting:

    • Developing systems for non-model organism de novo genome assembly and annotation
    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
  • Australian National University (ANU)

    The Australian National University (ANU) is supporting:

    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform

     

  • The University of Queensland

    The University of Queensland is supporting:

    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
    • Developing systems for non-model organism de novo genome assembly and annotation
  • University of Sydney

    The University of Sydney is supporting:

    • The establishment of a ‘BioCloud’
  • Genomics for Australian Plants

    The Genomics for Australian Plants Framework project is supporting:

    • Developing systems for non-model organism de novo genome assembly and annotation

     

  • Oz Mammals Genomics initiative

    The OzMammals Framework project is supporting:

    • Developing systems for non-model organism de novo genome assembly and annotation
    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
  • Metabolomics Australia

    Metabolomics Australia is supporting:

    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
  • Melbourne Bioinformatics

    Melbourne Bioinformatics is supporting:

    • Improvements to a ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Analysis Platform
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is partnering on:

    • Delivering impact to Australian Researchers by participating in a Global Data Commons
  • Kids First Data Resource Center

    The Kids First Data Resource Center is partnering on:

    • Delivering impact to Australian Researchers by participating in a Global Data Commons
  • Seven Bridges

    Seven Bridges is partnering on:

    • Delivering impact to Australian Researchers by participating in a Global Data Commons
  • Zero Childhood Cancer

    Zero Childhood Cancer is partnering on:

    • Delivering impact to Australian Researchers by participating in a Global Data Commons
The Australian BioCommons is an ambitious new digital capability that will enhance Australian research in its ability to understand the molecular basis of life across environmental, agricultural and biomedical science. The Australian BioCommons is an ambitious new digital capability that will enhance Australian research
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