Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Melbourne Bioinformatics Subscription Collaboration 2026 agreement

This internal University of Melbourne form is a guideline for researchers who seek to use the services of Melbourne Bioinformatics. Melbourne Bioinformatics is partly funded by MCRIP with co-contributions required for platform sustainability.

Details

Project name:

Researcher/Research Group:

Department:	School/Institute:

Faculty:

Email Address:	Phone:

Billing Details

Total cost, per schedule A:	Finance contact name:

Finance email address:	Finance phone number:

Work tags (if applicable):

First payment instalment cost:	Second payment instalment cost:

Date of payment:	Date of payment:

Subscription collaborations are paid via EIB journal unless otherwise specified. Payments occur on the first Monday in June and Dec unless otherwise specified. Melbourne Bioinformatics is responsible for EIB journal submission. If you would like to organise an alternative method of payment, please email our admin team following completion of this agreement.

Prof Daniel Park	Name:

Melbourne Bioinformatics	Department/Institute:

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences	Faculty:

Project details

Overview of project scope with Melbourne Bioinformatics. This is a high summary of intent and roles.

Scope: Please provide a brief summary of your work

Objectives: Please select key objectives for the collaborative work.

Grant writing

Pipeline development

Data analysis

Research design

Other ……………………………………………………………………..

Funding: Is this subscription collaboration supported by a grant? If yes, please detail the grant.

Subscription collaboration details: Please list start and end date, and FTE required of Melbourne Bioinformatics expert.

Start Date:

End Date:

FTE:

Melbourne Bioinformatics Collaboration agreement

Overview

Melbourne Bioinformatics provides researchers with collaborative access to our areas of expertise which include, but are not limited to, -omics based analyses and bioinformatics pipelining. Support is available for University of Melbourne staff/students and affiliate organisations.

There may be times where Melbourne Bioinformatics is unable to support your research through a subscription collaboration. We encourage you to view our other training and resources. If the training/resources you require are not listed, please reach out and we will discuss developing training material.

Timelines

We expect all subscription collaboration agreements to be finalised a month before the work begins. Subscription collaborations are often in high-demand, and this allows us time to ensure our staff can appropriately support your research.

Publication policy

Where intellectual contributions are made by Melbourne Bioinformatics experts, co-authorship follows the University of Melbourne publication policy (MPF1181). Depending on the contributions to a project, Melbourne Bioinformatics experts may be considered collaborators at the same level as other academic colleagues who contribute intellectually and receive funding for work on a project.

It is expected that authorship will be discussed at initial meeting. The recovery of Melbourne Bioinformatics related expenses does not exclude the possibility for authorship for Melbourne Bioinformatics experts. In cases where the Melbourne Bioinformatics expert is not a co-author, all services, including assistance with grant writing and method development, will require acknowledgement of Melbourne Bioinformatics contribution to the article, at the discretion of the author (and with permission from Melbourne Bioinformatics expert). Below is an example:

AUTHORS(S) would like to acknowledge Melbourne Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at University of Melbourne for its support while conducting the research presented in this work.

When listing Melbourne Bioinformatics experts’ affiliation in scientific papers, posters, reports and software, please follow this format: Author Name, Melbourne Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne.

In the context of co-design there may be different IP and creative attributions. This will need to be discussed ahead of publications and before the subscription collaboration agreement is submitted.

Melbourne Bioinformatics Training & Education

Melbourne Bioinformatics runs regular workshops that are freely available to UoM staff/students and affiliate organisations. Additionally, we host a GitHub page that offers free online tutorials. To maintain these pages, Melbourne Bioinformatics staff generously provide their time and expertise. If you are interested in contributing to the GitHub page or developing/facilitating a workshop, please let us know.

Privacy

Each party agrees that it will not collect, use, disclose, store, transfer or otherwise handle Personal Information or Health Information that it collects in connection with this agreement except to the extent that is reasonably necessary for the performance of its obligations under this agreement, and only in accordance with any Privacy Laws that apply to that party.

Costs

Melbourne Bioinformatics is funded through MCRIP, with co-contributions by research groups required for platform sustainability. Subscription collaboration agreements are currently charged at an Academic B6 salary (inc. on-costs), where the research group covers 75% of the cost, and Melbourne Bioinformatics contributes 25%.

When submitting grants with funding for bioinformatics support, it is expected that the research group contacts Melbourne Bioinformatics prior to grant submission to determine if costs are appropriate for the work.

If the FTE/time period that you require is not listed below, please reach out to the Melbourne Bioinformatics Academic Lead (Prof Daniel Park) to discuss further – djp@unimeblb.edu.au .

Schedule A

FTE	2026 Annual Cost (Jan-Dec)
0.8	$121, 112.95
0.6	$90, 384.71
0.4	$60, 556.48
0.2	$30, 278.24