July 2022 news

It has been a while since our last newsletter, and a lot’s been happening at Melbourne Bioinformatics. This autumn we ran successful workshops on RNA-seq analysis, variant calling, and hybrid de novo genome assembly; there are a lot more scheduled across the rest of the year. We’ve had research collaboration successes too, including a paper published in Nature Communications co-authored by Bernie Pope and Khalid Mahmood; and in terms of infrastructure Janis, a product of the Portable Pipelines Project, continues to expand in capability. The Bioinformaticians’ Shed remains a popular forum for informal information-sharing for those of us working in bioinformatics in the Parkville precinct: please do come along. Finally, in June we welcomed a new communications officer, Brett Holman. Brett is a writer and historian with a background in IT and physics, and he will be looking after our website and social media as well as this newsletter.
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