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CloudLaunch: discover and launch pre-configured software for a variety of clouds
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CloudLaunch: discover and launch pre-configured software for a variety of clouds

The Australian-made Genomics Virtual Laboratory keeps on producing outcomes for Melbourne...find out more

Leiden Open Variation Database developer Ivo Fokkema heads home after extensive work on our Genomics Health Alliance projects
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Leiden Open Variation Database developer Ivo Fokkema heads home after extensive work on our Genomics Health Alliance projects

For the second time in two years Melbourne Bioinformatics has hosted visiting scholar, Ivo...find out more

EMBL-ABR 2017 Annual Report out now
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EMBL-ABR 2017 Annual Report out now

Life science research is and will increasingly be shaped by infrastructure that supports it. At...find out more

Fierce competition for MSc (Bioinformatics) research placement projects in 2018
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Fierce competition for MSc (Bioinformatics) research placement projects in 2018

With only 22 students and over 45 projects, competition for Masters of Science (Bioinformatics)...find out more

The Australian Environmental Microbiome Research Data Cloud
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The Australian Environmental Microbiome Research Data Cloud

In March 2018 we started work on the Australian Environmental Microbiome Research Data Cloud...find out more

Galaxy Australia is extending the GVL for bioinformatics training and research across Australia
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Galaxy Australia is extending the GVL for bioinformatics training and research across Australia

In mid-March Melbourne Bioinformatics’ resident Galaxy guru, Simon Gladman, attended the ELIXIR...find out more

Global Alliance for Genomic Health strategic roadmap to more precise medicine
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Global Alliance for Genomic Health strategic roadmap to more precise medicine

Led by our software expert Anthony Marty, Melbourne Bioinformatics’ role in the Australian...find out more

Confronting antibiotic resistance using microbial genomics technologies
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Confronting antibiotic resistance using microbial genomics technologies

With growing antibiotic resistance spreading through our communities, finding new ways to stop...find out more

GVL creates connections across the Tasman
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GVL creates connections across the Tasman

Last month the GVL was trialled by colleagues in New Zealand (NZ) who were interested in its use...find out more

Nectar Virtual Labs deliver research impact
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Nectar Virtual Labs deliver research impact

2 November 2017 In a Victoria University report published this week which set about measuring the...find out more

Bioconda, simplifying software installation for bioinformaticians and life scientists
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Bioconda, simplifying software installation for bioinformaticians and life scientists

25 October 2017 Thanks to the global efforts of over 250 contributors, including our own Simon...find out more

ARC grant helps build $2m system for complex modelling and big data
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ARC grant helps build $2m system for complex modelling and big data

12 October 2017 With the retirement of the IBM Blue Gene/Q ‘Avoca’ at the end of...find out more

Helping to make clinical genomics a reality for Victorian patients
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Helping to make clinical genomics a reality for Victorian patients

For Melbourne Genomics, work is well underway towards the delivery of the first components of...find out more

Hi-Plex: simple, low-cost, modular targeted DNA sequencing technology
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Hi-Plex: simple, low-cost, modular targeted DNA sequencing technology

Hi-Plex was developed by our Molecular Biologist, Assoc Prof Daniel Park and Computer Scientist,...find out more

Sharing tools as well as data is crucial if we are to deliver on the promise of genomic medicine
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Sharing tools as well as data is crucial if we are to deliver on the promise of genomic medicine

In early August, Bernie Pope, Maillie Gall and Melbourne Genomics’ Natalie Thorne attended...find out more

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

Australian Biosciences Data Capability (ex-Cloud)
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Australian Biosciences Data Capability (ex-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 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

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Upcoming Events

Common Workflow Language for Bioinformatics
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Common Workflow Language for Bioinformatics

Thursday, May 31, 2018
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

As part of the 2018 Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (2018 C3DIS), Michael Milton will present a half day workshop on CWL for Bioinformatics. For further information and registration, please refer to the C3DIS website.

Introduction to Unix
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Introduction to Unix

Monday, June 18, 2018 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.

Introduction to High Performance Computing
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Introduction to High Performance Computing

Monday, June 18, 2018 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.

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

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 1.30pm-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.

Introduction to Galaxy and the GVL
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Introduction to Galaxy and the GVL

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 9.30am-12.30pm
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 […]

Introduction to Molecular Modelling & Visualisation for Life Sciences
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Introduction to Molecular Modelling & Visualisation for Life Sciences

Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:30am-12.30pm (AEST)
187 Grattan St, Carlton, VIC 3053 Australia

This Melbourne Bioinformatics workshop introduces beginners to molecular modelling and visualisation techniques using packages such as VMD and NAMD.  After introductory talks participants will be given practical exercises to visualise molecules as well as learn how to submit jobs to the Melbourne Bioinformatics clusters.

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

Thursday, June 21, 2018 1.30pm-4.30pm
Melbourne Bioinformatics Boardroom, 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 in a  precisely controlled environment, regardless of which computer system they are running on. This workshop will explain how these advantages can be […]

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

Monday, July 2, 2018 9:30am-12.30pm (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 […]

Common Workflow Language for Bioinformatics
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Common Workflow Language for Bioinformatics

Monday, July 2, 2018 1.30pm-4.30pm
187 Grattan St, Carlton VIC 3053

Common Workflow Language (or CWL), is a growing language for defining workflows in a cross-platform and cross-domain manner. In biology in particular, we need workflows to automate complex analyses such as DNA variant calling, RNA sequencing, and genome assembly. CWL provides a simple and well-defined format for automating these analysis by specifying their stages and connections […]

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Live Updates

Monday, 5 March, 2018 - Planned full systems outage 16-18 April 2018 This routine outage will... more...

Wednesday, 31 January, 2018 - All systems have been returned to service. During the outage, the causes of... more...

Tuesday, 30 January, 2018 - Unfortunately the file system has failed and we have to take a full outage.... more...

Monday, 22 January, 2018 - The systems have been returned to service but are running 'at risk' The most... more...

Thursday, 18 January, 2018 - Unfortunately the file systems controllers have failed, resulting in a system... 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