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The bare minimum: BioCommons in two slides

Introductory slides (scene setting, housekeeping)

Strategy slides (national context, purpose, vision, mission)

How we work (values, core practice, collaboration principles, organisational design)

Closing/outro slides

Content slides (what we do, what we offer, how we engage)

BioCommons services (one slide per service)

BioCommons activities (one slide per activity)

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BioCommons in�two slides

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Australian BioCommons enables the analysis of life science data through national research infrastructure: digital techniques, data and tools

Streamlines access to national scale analysis and data services

Galaxy Australia
Australian Apollo Service
Australian AlphaFold Service
Australian Fgenesh++ Service
Australian Nextflow Seqera Service
Australian BioCommons Leadership Share
Bioinformatics ToolFinder
Bioinformatics WorkflowFinder
Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal
Training Infrastructure as a Service

Offers national scale strategic advice and leadership

Convenes communities

of practice

Develops and maintains community scale digital infrastructure in concert with international peers

Delivers a national

training program

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Connecting with Australian BioCommons

Want to learn a new skill?

Participate in an online workshop or watch a webinar recording: biocommons.org.au/webinars-workshops

Looking for events, jobs, training opportunities and news?

Subscribe to the BioCommons monthly e-news: biocommons.org.au/news

Want to help design relevant bioinformatics infrastructure and services?

Join a researcher community that convenes around your methodology: biocommons.org.au/domains

Interested in delivering training?

Collaborate via the National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative: biocommons.org.au/trainingcooperative

@ausbiocommons.bsky.social

biocommons.org.au

AustralianBioCommons

AustralianBioCommonsChannel

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Housekeeping slides

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands on which we meet today.

We pay our respects to their Ancestors and their descendants, who continue cultural and spiritual connections to Country.

We recognise their valuable contributions to Australian and global society.

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Enhancing analysis of life science data by providing national scale research infrastructure

biocommons.org.au/subscribe

Follow us on:

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Housekeeping

Session is recorded

Autogenerated captions available

Questions via Q&A function

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Strategy slides

Slides regarding what we do, funding,�our vision, mission, collaboration principles, values

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National Context

Provides strategic funding for national-scale research infrastructure – driving collaboration to bring economic, environmental, health and social benefits for Australia.

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National Context

Provides strategic funding for national-scale research infrastructure – driving collaboration to bring economic, environmental, health and social benefits for Australia.

Supports Australian life sciences research by investing in state-of-the-art research infrastructure in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, synthetic biology and bioinformatics.

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National Context

Supports Australian life sciences research by investing in state-of-the-art research infrastructure in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, synthetic biology and bioinformatics.

Provides strategic funding for national-scale research infrastructure – driving collaboration to bring economic, environmental, health and social benefits for Australia.

Bioplatforms Australia identified that omics is a major contributor to data-centric digital sciences and demands investment in computing power, data management, software development and deployment, and in expertise not traditionally identified with the biological sciences. ��Australian BioCommons represents Bioplatforms Australia’s response to this digital transition

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Australia’s 25 National Research Infrastructures

Physics & Astronomy

Marine

Imaging

Earth & Environment

Human

Biology

Compute, access, data

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NCRIS funding via Bioplatforms Australia has established Australian BioCommons,

which provides fully subsidised bioinformatics infrastructure designed to support collaborative omics focused life science research in Australia.

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Underpinning arrangements

Governance

The scope, purpose and activities of Australian BioCommons are defined in funding agreements between the Commonwealth Department of Education and Bioplatforms Australia. ��The Board of Bioplatforms Australia has overall governance accountability. �

Legal

Australian BioCommons is not a legal entity. It is established through a contract between Bioplatforms Australia Ltd. and the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne executes contracts with organisations participating or contributing to Australian BioCommons activities. �

Delivery

The University of Melbourne is accountable to Bioplatforms Australia for the successful delivery of Australian BioCommons. The performance of Australian BioCommons is monitored and reported annually.

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Australian BioCommons’ purpose

Enable Australian life sciences researchers and their collaborators to:

Understand the molecular basis of life by applying advanced digital research infrastructure, tools, software and training

Access and apply the bioinformatics tools, methods and reference data that can address national challenges and research questions.

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Australian BioCommons’ vision

Australia's life science research and research translation is enhanced through world class collaborative distributed bioinformatics infrastructure.

World class bioinformatics capabilities empower breakthrough discoveries enabling the realisation of Australia's ambitions in human health, agriculture and biodiversity.

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Australian BioCommons enables the analysis of life science data through national research infrastructure: digital techniques, data and tools

Streamlines access to fully-subsidised, national scale analysis and data services

Offers strategic advice and leadership at a national scale

Convenes communities

of practice

Develops and maintains community scale digital infrastructure in concert with international peer infrastructures

Delivers a national

training program

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Mission

Sustain strategic leadership in the provision and use of bioinformatics and bioscience data infrastructures at a national scale
Actively support life science research communities with community-scale digital infrastructure, developed and maintained in concert with international peer infrastructures, and tailored to support bioinformatics practice
Deliver sophisticated analysis capabilities, including software and hardware platforms that underpin world class science
Support digital asset stewardship and management, retention, integration and publication solutions as they evolve

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Mission

Provide access to the digital techniques, data and tools that advance Australian capabilities in human, agricultural, and environmental genomics through omics research and its translation
Accelerate and enhance the impact of bioinformatics by leveraging digital technology advances such as artificial intelligence to significantly lift the productivity and capability of both intensive and occasional users of bioinformatics
Provide training and support solutions that develop transferable digital research and bioinformatics skills to leverage platforms, tools, services and techniques.

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33,000 researchers

(i.e. ~ ⅓ of Australian publicly funded researchers)�

+200,000 students

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Focus areas

50%

15,000

30%

9,000

20%

6,000

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Closing slides

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Take home messages

We operate multiple mature and robust services that will support your work
All experience levels are catered for
Our teams will work to help get you up and running
We can collaborate with your team to get the most out of these services
We encourage you to join our community activities
We welcome your input regarding further shared community-scale�national infrastructure that is required

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Connecting with Australian BioCommons

Want to learn a new skill?

Participate in an online workshop or watch a webinar recording: biocommons.org.au/webinars-workshops

Looking for events, jobs, training opportunities and news?

Subscribe to the BioCommons monthly e-news: biocommons.org.au/news

Want to help design relevant bioinformatics infrastructure and services?

Join a researcher community that convenes around your methodology: biocommons.org.au/domains

Interested in delivering training?

Collaborate via the National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative: biocommons.org.au/trainingcooperative

@ausbiocommons.bsky.social

biocommons.org.au

AustralianBioCommons

AustralianBioCommonsChannel

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Keep in touch

Subscribe to the BioCommons monthly e-news: biocommons.org.au/news

Upcoming webinars and workshops: biocommons.org.au/webinars-workshops

@ausbiocommons.bsky.social

biocommons.org.au

AustralianBioCommons

AustralianBioCommonsChannel

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Thanks for joining us!

Australian BioCommons is enabled by NCRIS via Bioplatforms Australia funding

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How we work slides

Values, organisational design

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Key characteristics of Australian BioCommons

Simple to use service platforms

Support different expertise levels

Technical platforms for programmatic access

Skills development

Support for all of life science

Global participation

[Audiences: any who need a background introduction to BioCommons as an infrastructure. Eg. other infrastructures, strategic planning]

Feedback from a wide range of national and international stakeholders consistently identifies a key set of characteristics that define Australian BioCommons. These include:

Simple to use service platforms that allow researchers to bring their goals, tools, pipelines and data all on a user friendly, web-based platform.

Technical platforms are also provided for programmatic access, designed for omics data and complex analyses that require the unique flexibility, scalability, and control afforded by the command-line interface.

Support for different expertise levels: All life scientists, biologists and bioinformaticians are supported, ensuring BioCommons is beneficial to occasional and intensive users of bioinformatics.

Support across all of life science: Australian BioCommons has a remit to ensure that all life scientists can apply omics to achieve their research goals

Global participation: Australian BioCommons provides a mechanism for Australia’s interests to be represented at a global scale, and we can participate in global infrastructure endeavours that are relevant to the life sciences

Skills development: Australian BioCommons offers an extensive training program for relevant bioinformatics tools, software and services that cater to all user and developer types.

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Values

Respect

Collaboration

Integrity

Communication

Innovation

Our values underpin the work we do, and how we do it:

[Audiences: where values are important e.g. potential partners, collaborators, new team members]

[NOTE: You can present just this slide, and verbally explain the values listed below. Alternatively, use the next 5 slides to step through the values one by one on screen.]

Respect: We welcome and value the full range of experiences, strengths and opinions.

Integrity: We are honest, committed and accountable, and can be trusted to meet high standards.

Collaboration: We nurture relationships to underpin and encourage collaboration at every level of operation.

Communication: We actively listen and integrate many voices to clarify shared visions. We build reputation and demonstrate value through how we engage and communicate.

Innovation: We strive for continuous improvement, show initiative, pre-empt needs and implement best practices.

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Values

We welcome and value the full range of experiences, strengths and opinions.

Respect

Collaboration

Integrity

Communication

Innovation

Our values underpin the work we do, and how we do it:

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Values

We are honest, committed and accountable, and can be trusted to meet high standards.

Respect

Collaboration

Integrity

Communication

Innovation

Our values underpin the work we do, and how we do it:

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Values

We nurture relationships to underpin and encourage collaboration at every level of operation.

Respect

Collaboration

Integrity

Communication

Innovation

Our values underpin the work we do, and how we do it:

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Values

We actively listen and integrate many voices to clarify shared visions. We build reputation and demonstrate value through how we engage and communicate.

Respect

Collaboration

Integrity

Communication

Innovation

Our values underpin the work we do, and how we do it:

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Values

We strive for continuous improvement, show initiative, pre-empt needs and implement best practices.

Respect

Collaboration

Integrity

Communication

Innovation

Our values underpin the work we do, and how we do it:

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Core practice

Infrastructure

Training

Services

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Collaboration principles

Start with national intent

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

[Audiences: Those where our strategy is relevant eg. funding providers, potential partners]

[NOTE: You can present just this slide, and verbally explain the collaboration principles listed below. Alternatively, use the next 6 slides to step through the values one by one on screen.]

Collaboration is at the heart of everything Australian BioCommons does. National bioinformatics infrastructure is delivered according the the principles you see on this slide.

National intent: Australian BioCommons prioritises activities that benefit the ambitions expressed by national research communities and engages with participants already addressing national outcomes or that are willing to support their achievement

Australian BioCommons partners internationally to actively contribute to larger efforts, and repurpose or improve existing solutions rather than reinvent the wheel

BioCommons also partners locally, to work with other NCRIS facilities and local bioinformatics institutes to deliver maximum impact to life science researchers

Australian BioCommons identifies and works with community champions. These individuals have significant experience and awareness of the national landscape in their area, and may be champions of specific techniques, appliciations, or infrastructures

BioCommons tailors research infrastructure for bioinformatics use, removing the burden of infrastructure management from researchers and allowing them to refocus on method development and dissemination

Lastly, Australian BioCommons welcomes the ambitions of its staff, collaborators and users, and works to develop and nurture their talents

Slide is self explanatory, no suggested notes beyond what is on screen

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Collaboration principles

Start with national intent

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

Align our activities with the vision and mission of Bioplatforms Australia and actively support Bioplatforms Australia’s scientific initiatives and collaborations��
Prioritise activities that: �benefit the ambitions expressed by national research communities and, �engages with participants already addressing national outcomes or that are willing to support their achievement

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

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Collaboration principles

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Start with national intent

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

A sustained global wave of investment is continuing into bioinformatics infrastructure�
Australian BioCommons intends to participate in and contribute to larger critical mass efforts, to reuse and improve rather than build anew, and to ‘ride (and actively contribute to) that wave’�
This intent reflects a desire to gain the maximum benefit possible from large global investments to address the bioinformatics challenges present in life science research

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Collaboration principles

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

Start with national intent

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

Australian BioCommons is funded to enable national bioinformatics research infrastructure but cannot support the required nationwide scale of use on its own.
We partner with other NCRIS national digital research infrastructures, state and institutional level bioinformatics centres of expertise and institutional digital infrastructures to provide life science researchers with bioinformatics support, compute and data capacity.
Partnering with BioCommons provides a means for those digital infrastructure capabilities to enhance their impact in the life sciences.

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Collaboration principles

Start with national intent

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

A key part of Australian BioCommons’ mission is to actively support life science research communities with community-scale digital infrastructure.
That requires input from champions: community members with a significant level of experience and awareness of national and international initiatives and approaches.
Australian BioCommons aims to work with champions within these communities that have that expertise.
These may be champions for bioinformatics techniques or their scientific application, and in infrastructure development and supply.

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

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Collaboration principles

Start with national intent

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

Best practice bioinformatics methods constantly evolve, as do the underlying infrastructure requirements. �

Australian BioCommons supports a software and expertise capability that tailors infrastructure for bioinformatics use, allowing researchers to focus on method development and dissemination rather than infrastructure management.

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

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Collaboration principles

Start with national intent

Partner internationally to contribute to and benefit from larger efforts

Partner locally to deliver maximum impact to life scientists

Australian BioCommons develops the talents and aspirations of its staff, collaborators and users. ��This principle encodes a core tenet of the Australian BioCommons team.

Unburden researchers from infrastructure management

Identify and work with

community champions

Empower staff, collaborator and user’s ambitions

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Structure

Three layers
A primary goal of Australian BioCommons is to achieve a cohesive result across several hundred people sourced on a full time or fractional basis from many different organisations.

Executive

Coordination Hub

Participants

Director, A/Directors

Hub Team

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Divisions

Six divisions, each headed by an executive team member.

Each has accountability for the strategic direction, stakeholder management, resourcing and delivery of the activities, infrastructure and/or services in their area of expertise.�

Leadership, Management and Operations

Engagement & Community Response

Platforms and Services

Human Genome Informatics

Training and Communications

BioCloud

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

Nodes ��Employ staff who have key roles within BioCommons leadership, coordination and Hub teams.�UoM, USyd, QCIF

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

Delivery partners ��Support long term roles required to support BioCommons activities and/or long term access to requisite infrastructure and services.�e.g. NCI, Pawsey, AARNet, QCIF

Nodes ��Employ staff who have key roles within BioCommons leadership, coordination and Hub teams.�UoM, USyd, QCIF

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

Project participants ��Engage in focused projects for a fixed term and provide personnel and infrastructure resources as agreed in a project plan.

e.g. Garvan, QIMRB, etc

Delivery partners ��Support long term roles required to support BioCommons activities and/or long term access to requisite infrastructure and services.�e.g. NCI, Pawsey, AARNet, QCIF

Nodes ��Employ staff who have key roles within BioCommons leadership, coordination and Hub teams.�UoM, USyd, QCIF

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

Technology developers ��Our co-development principle leads to the use of internationally sourced research infrastructure technologies and systems.

e.g. Galaxy, Gen3

Nodes ��Employ staff who have key roles within BioCommons leadership, coordination and Hub teams.�UoM, USyd, QCIF

Project participants ��Engage in focused projects for a fixed term and provide personnel and infrastructure resources as agreed in a project plan.

e.g. Garvan, QIMRB, etc

Delivery partners ��Support long term roles required to support BioCommons activities and/or long term access to requisite infrastructure and services.�e.g. NCI, Pawsey, AARNet, QCIF

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

Service suppliers��A number of fee-for-service suppliers provide specific software licences, expertise and/or pay as you go infrastructure to Australian BioCommons.

e.g. Seqera, Softberry, AWS

Technology developers ��Our co-development principle leads to the use of internationally sourced research infrastructure technologies and systems.

e.g. Galaxy, Gen3

Nodes ��Employ staff who have key roles within BioCommons leadership, coordination and Hub teams.�UoM, USyd, QCIF

Project participants ��Engage in focused projects for a fixed term and provide personnel and infrastructure resources as agreed in a project plan.

e.g. Garvan, QIMRB, etc

Delivery partners ��Support long term roles required to support BioCommons activities and/or long term access to requisite infrastructure and services.�e.g. NCI, Pawsey, AARNet, QCIF

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Participants

Australian BioCommons strategy hinges on the enlistment of many contributors that engage with their

own resources.

Community contributors ��Voluntarily assist in the National Bioinformatics Training Co-op and actively participate in researcher consultations and community meetings

(of which there are many)

Service suppliers��A number of fee-for-service suppliers provide specific software licences, expertise and/or pay as you go infrastructure to Australian BioCommons.

e.g. Seqera, Softberry, AWS

Technology developers ��Our co-development principle leads to the use of internationally sourced research infrastructure technologies and systems.

e.g. Galaxy, Gen3

Nodes ��Employ staff who have key roles within BioCommons leadership, coordination and Hub teams.�UoM, USyd, QCIF

Project participants ��Engage in focused projects for a fixed term and provide personnel and infrastructure resources as agreed in a project plan.

e.g. Garvan, QIMRB, etc

Delivery partners ��Support long term roles required to support BioCommons activities and/or long term access to requisite infrastructure and services.�e.g. NCI, Pawsey, AARNet, QCIF

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Content slides

Slides regarding what we do, what we offer, how we engage

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Australian BioCommons services and training are fully subsidised for Australian researchers and students to use

Service delivery partners

Galaxy Australia
Australian Apollo Service
Australian AlphaFold Service
Australian Reference Genome Atlas
Bioinformatics Tool Finder
Bioinformatics Workflow Finder
Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal

Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS)
Australian Fgenesh++ Service
Australian Nextflow Seqera Service

Web accessible

Command

line

Webinars
Hands-on workshops events
Training Infrastructure as a Service

Training

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Engagement with research organisations

PLANT PROTEIN ATLAS

AUSTRALASIA

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BioCommons engages with:

single cell omics

multi-omics

genomics

microbiome analysis

proteomics

metabolomics

Methods based communities

Research�consortia

Data production facilities

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BioCommons facilitates interactions with computational providers to build a fit-for-purpose, flexible and cohesive data analysis ecosystem

bioinformaticians

core �facilities

life scientists

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BioCommons facilitates interactions with computational providers to build a fit-for-purpose, flexible and cohesive data analysis ecosystem

Methods base communities

Research consortia

Data production facilities

single cell omics

multi-omics

genomics

microbiome analysis

proteomics

metabolomics

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BioCommons identifies and documents needs

SURVEY

genome annotation

comparative�genomics

genome assembly

metagenomics

proteomics

etc...

Genome Assembly Infrastructure Roadmap for Australia

V4.0

July 2020

Genome Annotation Infrastructure Roadmap for Australia

V4.0

July 2020

Comparative Genomics Infrastructure Roadmap for Australia

V4.0

September 2022

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Then deploys services for all to use

BIOINFORMATICS �TRAINING

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Engagement is cyclic and ongoing

Infrastructure

Training

Services

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BioCommons training program

Diverse, high quality training events
Accessible and free to all Australian life scientists
Helping researchers keep up with the latest in bioinformatics
Past webinars available on the BioCommons YouTube Channel

biocommons.org.au/webinars-workshops

[Audiences: all, particularly researchers]

BioCommons offers a national training program that helps build digital capability for life science communities.

The training program is based on collaboration. When someone has a great idea, or sought after expertise, or a tool they want to share, BioCommons will work to support them to deliver great training for Australian researchers. BioCommons lowers the barrier for experts in the community to step up to train, guides them towards the best possible training outcomes, and connects them with a willing audience for great results.

A deliberate strategy to partner widely catalyses training that wouldn’t have come together otherwise, and all training is offered free of charge to all Australian researchers.

Examples include live workshops, recorded webinars, and an assortment of events and activities that help connect researchers to the best support available. Please look at the webpage to see what is coming up as well as the repository of past event listings and resources.

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National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative

~25 events per year

200+ Trainers

[Audiences: trainers, research institutes/organisations, strategic]

Most BioCommons training supports bioinformatics trainers who are already delivering training into their communities. BioCommons leverages and shares resources nationally and pulls in people, knowledge and best practice from national and international partners.

BioCommons has gathered a community of over 100 volunteers who help to roll out workshops.

The Training Cooperative is a group of training professionals from the organisations listed here, with the idea of participating in an informal cooperative that shared training events nationally. They have excellent training programs of their own, but they are often quite targeted to their own members or other stakeholders. BioCommons workscollaboratively to hold these events nationally.

Each group puts forward trainers and workshops are made available to everyone at no cost. BioCommons does all of the organising and bringing people onboard. This is a great vehicle to deliver big online hands-on training events.

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Outreach and communications

Over 2,000 monthly newsletter subscribers
Rapid growth on LinkedIn

YouTube houses a library of recorded events
Receives ~2,000 new views each month

Keep up to date through the newsletter or online
Pitch a story that will benefit Australian researchers!

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Content slides

Each service in one slide

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1500+ tools, 220+ reference data sets
Upload data, execute, download data
Drag and drop tools into workflows
Share workflows with collaborators
Powerful compute backend (AARNet, NCI,�Pawsey, Nectar Cloud, Microsoft Azure)
Unmetered compute (use as much as you like)
Extensive training material available

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National compute network

CBR

BNE

SYD

MEL

PER

usegalaxy.org.au

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Bioplatforms Australia Data Portal

Free to browse and search for data using a web-based interface or programmatically
Data from all Bioplatforms Framework Initiatives is available
A minimum metadata standard (incorporating internationally agreed standards) is required to describe samples and data files�

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Australian Apollo Service

Apollo - a JBrowse based system to enable collaborative, manual correction of automated genome annotations
Apollo Service: the set-up and management of the underlying IT is taken care of
Fully subsidised for Australian researchers
Just sign up and start using it (upload your genome and evidence files)

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Australian Nextflow Seqera Service

Nextflow: an emerging standard to define bioinformatics workflows
A centralised ‘command post’ to run and monitor the execution of Nextflow pipelines on your compute infrastructure
Web interface and API available
Enabled through a national licence with Seqera Labs

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Australian Nextflow Seqera Service - three in one

Personal Workspace

Organisation Workspace

Analysis Service

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Australian Alphafold Service

An AI system that predicts a protein’s structure from its sequence
Available for use via Galaxy Australia, which provides the underlying compute power and set up needed to run Alphafold
Fully subsidised for Australian researchers
Register for access via Galaxy Australia

[Audience: Structural biologists, structural chemists, those interested in Galaxy Australia]

AlphaFold is an AI system developed by DeepMind that predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. It regularly achieves accuracy that is competitive with experimental methods.

AlphaFold 2 is now available for use via the Galaxy Australia platform which provides access to the GPU clusters required to power the application.

Australian BioCommons and delivery partners at QCIF and The University of Melbourne provide an Australian AlphaFold Service where you can upload your amino acid sequence, and all the set-up and provisioning of underlying GPU infrastructure are taken care of, so you and your team can focus on generating the protein 3D structure itself.

The Australian AlphaFold Service is fully subsidised for use by Australian-based research groups and research consortia.

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A one-stop shop for finding genomic data for Australian species
Genomes, barcodes, raw and assembled data
Data from NCBI, BPA Data Portal, BOLD (with more to come)

[Audiences: researchers who use reference genomes]

ARGA is your one-stop shop for finding genomic data for Australian and Australia-relevant species

ARGA indexes multiple online repositories for genetic and genomic data, so you can explore aggregated data from a central portal. You can browse and search for genome assemblies, genetic loci and marker sequences, other genomic components, and physical specimens. Metadata are extracted from source repositories, reprocessed and provided according to the events that make up the data life cycle - from specimen collection, to nucleic acid sequencing, to online data deposition. You can also explore data availability across different taxonomic classifications and curated thematic groupings, such as bushfire vulnerability or commercial interest.

The data on ARGA is regularly re-indexed to maintain currency and the team continue to work towards integrating additional data sources.

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Australian BioCommons Leadership�Share (ABLeS)

Computational resource, specialist expertise, and shared bioinformatics tools at NCI and Pawsey
Allocations for reference data asset generation, production analyses, and the Software Accelerator
No need to apply through NCMAS or other merit allocation schemes for HPC access
Open to all Australian researchers and research organisations

[Audiences: researchers or research organisations that need support with access to HPC]

The Australian BioCommons Leadership Share (ABLeS) enhances the capacity of life science communities to construct, maintain and gain insights from community-defined and developed data assets by providing access to infrastructure and computational resources.

This Australian BioCommons program provides computational resources, specialist expertise, and a shared repository of tools and software, tailored to support life science researchers across three areas:

Generation of valuable reference data assets eg. reference genome assemblies
Data analysis at production scale using established computational workflow approaches
Acceleration of bioinformatics software development, installation, optimisation, testing and/or benchmarking.

ABLeS is open to all Australian researchers or research organisations, and there is no need to apply through merit allocation schemes.

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Australian Fgenesh++ Service

Commercial automatic genome annotation software which predicts genes in eukaryotic genomes
Fully subsidised for Australian-based researchers
Accessible via command-line or on�Galaxy Australia

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Finder Services

ToolFinder

Find bioinformatics tools and software installed across our infrastructure partners’ systems

Workflow Finder

Browse workflows registered by our partners on WorkflowHub

Discover

Evaluate

Reuse

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Content slides

Each activity in one slide

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BioCLI project

Focus on:

Accessibility and usability
Tailored computational resources
Performance and scale

Empowering life scientists with user-focused CLI environments and services

Preconfigured & portable virtual machine image with essential bioinformatics tools, libraries, and datasets.

Expand access to GPU-accelerated tools like Alphafold by enabling connections to GPU hardware and conversion of hardware-specific libraries.

Enable researchers to build, deploy, and scale community-supported workflows on the computational infrastructures they use.

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Workflow Commons

Keeping up with the rapid evolution of omics data methods!

Focus on the ‘glue’ that holds everything together:

Workflows
Services
Training
Documentation
Collections & standards

Workflow �infrastructure

Workflow �developers

Workflows �community

Workflow �Commons

Workflow �users

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Australian Cardiovascular disease Data Commons

Large collaboration led by Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute
Built with Gen3 technology
Runs on Amazon AWS
Will contain pooled data from 400k individuals across 18 cohorts