Australian BioCommons

In 2019, Melbourne Bioinformatics was the initial host for the Australian BioCommons, a major life science research infrastructure project funded by NCRIS through Bioplatforms Australia. The BioCommons works collaboratively with key national partners to provide Australia's 30,000 life science researchers with enduring access to the digital research infrastructure, services, tools, software and training that are needed to understand the molecular basis of life across environmental, agricultural and biomedical sciences.

The Australian BioCommons Coordination Hub remains co-located with Melbourne Bioinformatics, and the two organisations continue to work closely together on a number of key national infrastructure projects. These include: Galaxy Australia, a hosted web-accessible platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research used by thousands of researchers across Australia; Janis, part of the Portable Pipelines Project, which aids the sharing and deployment of bioinformatic workflows across computational architectures; and the Human Genome Platform Project, which is enhancing capability for securely and responsibly sharing human genome research data nationally and internationally, ensuring maximum value can be derived from these valuable assets.