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Australian Genomics Health Alliance (Australian Genomics)
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Australian Genomics Health Alliance (Australian Genomics)

Melbourne Bioinformatics is one of 80 partners across Australia and internationally who are...find out more

Lead Bioinformatician, Dr Bernard Pope, wins one of only three Victorian Health & Medical Research Fellowships
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Lead Bioinformatician, Dr Bernard Pope, wins one of only three Victorian Health & Medical Research Fellowships

Dr Bernard Pope, our Lead Bioinformatician for Cancer and Clinical Genomics and Lecturer and...find out more

Handle variant effect prediction tools with care, Human Genomics paper, May 2017
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Handle variant effect prediction tools with care, Human Genomics paper, May 2017

Recently in our Human Genomics group we have been reflecting on the complex problems which can...find out more

Australian Biosciences Cloud
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Australian Biosciences Cloud

Biosciences research in Australia involves a diverse set of activities from local to national,...find out more

Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Melbourne Genomics)
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Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance (Melbourne Genomics)

A Dutch study published in Genetics in Medicine on 4 February 2016 applies a cost analysis to the...find out more

Pan Prostate Genomics Consortium (PPGC)
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Pan Prostate Genomics Consortium (PPGC)

Many groups around the world have generated Whole Genome DNA Sequence (WGS) data. To co-ordinate...find out more

Human Genomics Group
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Human Genomics Group

The Human Genomics Group is focused on enabling medical breakthroughs via new and cutting-edge...find out more

EMBL-ABR: Melbourne Bioinformatics Node
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EMBL-ABR: Melbourne Bioinformatics Node

Melbourne Bioinformatics, as a high-end computing facility and a team of, now, 35 experts who are...find out more

EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR)
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EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR)

EMBL-ABR aims to: increase Australia’s capacity to collect, integrate, analyse, exploit, share...find out more

Microbial Genomics Virtual Laboratory
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Microbial Genomics Virtual Laboratory

Public health authorities and researchers around the world are working hard to implement a new...find out more

Genomics Virtual Laboratory
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Genomics Virtual Laboratory

Over ten years after the sequencing of the human genome, in 2013 the National eResearch...find out more

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Upcoming Events

Introduction to Unix
Workshops

Introduction to Unix

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 9.30am-12.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia

Knowledge of the Unix operating system is fundamental to being productive on HPC systems such as those offered by Melbourne Bioinformatics. This workshop will introduce you to the fundamental Unix concepts by way of a series of hands-on exercises. In particular you will learn how to do the following things: Log into a Unix machine […]

Introduction to High Performance Computing
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Introduction to High Performance Computing

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 1.30-4.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia

Using High Performance Computing (HPC) resources such as Melbourne Bioinformatics in an effective and efficient manner is key to modern research.  This workshop will introduce you to HPC environments and assist you to get on with your research. In particular you will learn: What is HPC? Loading software modules Submitting jobs Selecting job queues Monitoring […]

Introduction to Unix
Workshops

Introduction to Unix

Monday, October 2, 2017 9:30am - 12:30pm (AEST)
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia

Knowledge of the Unix operating system is fundamental to being productive on HPC systems such as those offered by Melbourne Bioinformatics. This workshop will introduce you to the fundamental Unix concepts by way of a series of hands-on exercises.

Introduction to High Performance Computing
Workshops

Introduction to High Performance Computing

Monday, October 2, 2017 1:30-4.30pm (AEST)
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia

Using High Performance Computing (HPC) resources such as Melbourne Bioinformatics in an effective and efficient manner is key to modern research.  This workshop will introduce you to HPC environments and assist you to get on with your research.

Introduction to Galaxy and the GVL
Workshops

Introduction to Galaxy and the GVL

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 1.30pm-4.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia

Galaxy is an open source, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. It allows users without programming experience to easily specify parameters and run individual tools as well as larger workflows. It also captures run information so that any user can repeat and understand a complete computational analysis. Finally, it allows users to share […]

RNA-Seq Differential Gene Expression Analysis using Galaxy and the GVL
Workshops

RNA-Seq Differential Gene Expression Analysis using Galaxy and the GVL

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 1.30-4.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Swanston Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia

In this tutorial we will cover the concepts of RNA-Seq differential gene expression (DGE) analysis using Galaxy: an open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. Participants with no previous Galaxy experience are strongly recommended to attend the “Introduction to Galaxy” workshop first. Attendees are required to bring their own laptop computers.

Variant Calling with Galaxy & the GVL for beginners
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Variant Calling with Galaxy & the GVL for beginners

Thursday, October 5, 2017 1:30pm-4.30pm (AEST)
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia

In this tutorial we cover the concepts of detecting small variants (SNVs and indels) in human genomic DNA using a small set of reads from chromosome 22. The tutorial is designed to introduce the tools, datatypes and workflow of variant detection. We will align reads to the genome, look for differences between reads and reference genome […]

Containerised Bioinformatics: Docker and other tools for reproducible analysis
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Containerised Bioinformatics: Docker and other tools for reproducible analysis

Monday, October 9, 2017 1.30pm-4.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics, 187 Grattan St, Carlton

Containerisation is a method of bundling an application or pipeline with all its dependencies, from language runtimes like Python and R to the operating system itself. This technology has already revolutionised web development by providing a simple way to run web applications a in precisely controlled environment, regardless of which computer system they are running on. This workshop will explain how these advantages can be […]

Open source science with Git and GitHub
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Open source science with Git and GitHub

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 1:00pm - 5:00pm (AEST)
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 187 Grattan Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia

Learn how to keep a record your code’s evolution over time using the git version control system, used by companies and open-source projects worldwide. Git allows you to easily maintain snapshots of your code as you make changes, keep multiple parallel versions of your code, and collaborate with others.

Introduction to long-read genome assembly
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Introduction to long-read genome assembly

Monday, October 23, 2017 1.30-4.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics, 187 Grattan St, Carlton

New genome sequencing technologies are producing much longer reads. This workshop combines an introductory presentation to introduce the theory of de novo genome assembly with hands-on practice. It will cover long-read technologies and data types, and provide an overview of genome assembly methods. You will use command-line tools to perform long-read assembly and short-read polishing […]

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Lenovo NeXtScale
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Live Updates

Thursday, 29 June, 2017 - All systems are now in service. Unfortunately, any jobs that were running... more...

- Barcoo is now in service.
Unfortunately, any jobs that were running... more...

- Unscheduled Outage: Data Centre Power Outage
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Wednesday, 24 May, 2017 - Snowy log-in node is now operational. A scheduled upgrade to log-in nodes... more...

Tuesday, 7 February, 2017 - All systems are functioning normally. more...

Our partnership with the microbial genomics team at VLSCI [now Melbourne Bioinformatics] is a key driver behind our program to bring the full power of genomics to Australian public and clinical microbiology laboratories. Genomics is revolutionising our ability to track disease outbreak and stop the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria. The Melbourne Bioinformatics team is critical to our efforts by providing accessible software tools and analysis platforms to interrogate the genome data in a framework that can then be deployed across Australia, and potentially across the globe for the benefit of all.

Tim Stinear, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Scientific Director, Doherty Applied Microbial Genomics program
The Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity, the University of Melbourne