Workshops & Events

Workshops & Events

Workshops

Melbourne Bioinformatics offers a wide range of hands-on workshops which are designed to give participants the tools to apply bioinformatics techniques in their own research. Many of our workshops have been developed for use with Galaxy Australia while others focus on more specialised applications, but we also provide a solid grounding in fundamental data science skills. All of our workshops have been developed by our experienced bioinformatics experts, who can deliver them either on-site at Melbourne Bioinformatics, or in-house for your group. Our training materials are also freely available online for use in your own workshops, for self-directed learning or for conducting your own research.

Something you’re interested in not showing up today? Contact us to register your interest in a particular workshop, and we’ll let you know when it is running next. Alternatively, follow us on Eventbrite to keep informed of all forthcoming workshops.

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Eligibility

All of our trainer-led workshops are free for researchers and students from the University of Melbourne and its affiliated research institutes. Due to the very high local demand and popularity of these workshops, we cannot accept external registrations. Registrants must use an institutional email address from the University of Melbourne or an affiliated research institute to gain admission to these trainer-led workshops.

Upcoming Workshops

Bioinformatics Meetups

We’re a community of people doing bioinformatics in Victoria, organised by Melbourne Bioinformatics and convened by Tom Harrop and Steven Morgan.

We hold informal online Meetups where we share tools, approaches, and problems. Each session starts with a 20-minute talk followed by open discussion. Whether you’re a solo bioinformatician in a wet lab or part of a bioinformatics group or core, there’s always something new to learn from each other.

Meetup Schedule

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    4/12/2025Wytamma Wirth (University of Melbourne)Client-side Bioinformatics: Building bioinformatics tools for the browser with WebAssembly 
    30/10/2025Tom Harrop (Australian BioCommons)Automating genome assembly for the Australian Tree of Life project 
    25/09/2025Melissa Hernandez Poveda (University of Melbourne)The Snowy Mountains Frogs: A Story Fighting for Survival 
    28/08/2025Melissa Carew (University of Melbourne)Bioinformatics and biodiversity: creating a workflow for invertebrate DNA metabarcoding data 
    31/07/2025Stephen Frankenberg (University of Melbourne)Genetically engineering wildlife for good instead of evil 
    26/06/2025Keiran Rowell (UNSW)Working with ProteinFold: high performance protein structure prediction from a simple spreadsheet 
    28/11/2024 Matias Silva (Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Staying ahead of the game: Genomics in the Australian Biosecurity Research Environment  
    26/09/2024 Amara Jabeen (Macquarie University) Chromosome-Scale 3D Genomics in Coral Hybrids  
    29/08/2024 Etienne Mueller (University of Melbourne) Converting Brain Imaging Data to Artificial Neural Networks  
    25/07/2024 Danny Park (Melbourne Bioinformatics) An overview of some common neural network architectures  
    30/11/2023 Saritha Kodikara (Melbourne Integrative Genomics) Statistical challenges in longitudinal microbiome data analysis  
    19/10/2023 Jack Scanlan (University of Melbourne) Developing a deep amplicon sequencing approach to genotype complex loci in whole fungal populations  
    28/09/2023 Michael Nakai (COMBINE) Collaborating, Networking and Growing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology through COMBINE  
    31/08/2023 Ryan Wick (Doherty Institute) Tiny Pores, Big Contigs: Advancements in ONT Sequencing  
    29/06/2023 Davide Vespasiani (WEHI) Using scRNA-seq to investigate gene expression differences across species for blood-related cells  
    27/10/2022 Shani Amarasinghe (Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute) Single cell pre-processing with scPipe  
    13/10/2022 Danny Park (Melbourne Bioinformatics) Doing bioinformatics on a M1 Mac  
    15/09/2022 Cameron Hyde (QCIF/Galaxy Australia) Using AlphaFold2 on Galaxy  
    18/08/2022 Stefano Mangiola (WEHI) Tidy transcriptomics for single-cell and bulk RNA-seq  
    21/07/2022 Ash Porter (Doherty Institute) The power of epidemiological metadata in phylogeography models  
    07/07/2022 Ramyar Molania (WEHI) Batch effects in RNA-seq data  
    23/06/2022 Priyanka Pillai (MDAP) Case studies in health informatics  
    26/05/2022 Steven Morgan (Melbourne Bioinformatics) BLAST – why it’s still relevant  
    12/05/2022 Torsten Seemann (Peter Doherty Institute) Manipulating tabular data on the command line with csvtk Slides
    28/04/2022 Quentin Gouil (WEHI) Long-read sequencing: principles, methods and applications Slides
    14/04/2022 Stephanie Portelli (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne) Analysing missense mutations using structural bioinformatics techniques Slides
    31/03/2022 Craig Morton (Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21) 'Alphafold2: What’s in it for me?' Slides
    17/03/2022 Simon Gladman (Melbourne Bioinformatics) Galaxy Australia  
    09/12/2021 Gareth Price (Galaxy Australia) New high memory nodes now available to all Galaxy Australia users  
    25/11/2021 Jacqueline Heighway (Florey Institute) Accessing publicly available RNA-seq data to support your research Slides
    11/11/2021 Tom Harrop (Melbourne Bioinformatics) A short practical intro to Singularity containers Slides
    28/10/2021 Bernie Pope (Melbourne Bioinformatics) Hatch, a plotting library Slides
    14/10/2021 Dave Clarke (CSIRO/University of Melbourne) Finding Genes with Hidden Markov Models: How? Does it Work? Slides
    30/09/2021 Sean Crosby (Research Computing Services) HPC options for your data analysis

    Slides

    Helpful links from Sean’s talk:
    HPC Dashboard
    Cloud Dashboard
    Orion Researcher Desktop
    RCS Storage
    RCS Training

    Email Sean at scrosby@unimelb.edu.au to discuss your computational needs

    16/09/2021 Bobbie Shaban (MDAP) Introduction to workflow managers Slides
    02/09/2021 Jessica Chung (Melbourne Bioinformatics) Reproducible research principles of data analysis Slides
    19/08/2021 Chol-Hee Jung (Melbourne Bioinformatics) Data quality – Know what you have Slides
    05/08/2021 Gayle Philip (Melbourne Bioinformatics) Good practices: data and metadata to facilitate analyses Slides