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Plant Pathogen Omics Initiative announces an open call for genomics-focused projects
The Bioplatforms Australia Plant Pathogen ‘Omics Initiative is now seeking partners to nominate and lead projects that will generate important genomic data resources for priority plant pathogen species. Background and Aims The Bioplatforms...
Woylies back in their former range for the first time in 100 years
To support the recovery of threatened species, conservation managers implement multiple diverse yet interconnected actions from feral animal and weed management, to habitat restoration and the establishment of captive populations for reintroduction purposes....
Annual Report 2021: Science in practice
As Australia, indeed the global community works through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that research and science will be critical to address all manner of challenges. These challenges of course compound with the ongoing impacts of climate change and clean energy,...
NCRIS: The power behind Australia’s science
Australian science continues to make national and international headlines, most recently focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2019 – 2020 Australian bushfires. Behind these headlines, you will find a community of impassioned researchers. And behind...
Introducing the Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA)
To consolidate Australia’s genomic data and make it available for researchers to use, the Atlas of Living Australia, Bioplatforms Australia, Australian BioCommons and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funded via the Australian Government’s National Collaborative...
Unveiling the secrets of the NSW Waratah
We are very excited to announce the completion of the NSW waratah (Telopea speciosissima) genome from our Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP) Initiative led by researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney and the University of...
Bioplatforms lends infrastructure and expertise to four new ARC centres
Bioplatforms Australia partners on 4 of the 16 successful ARC Industrial Training Centre’s and Industrial Transformation Research Hubs announced today. This is indicative of the dependence upon deep biological analytics in contemporary scientific discovery and...
Threatened Species Initiative on the cover of Australian Geographic
One of our major Framework Initiative Projects, The Threatened Species Initiative (TSI), made the front cover of Australian Geographic for their January/February issue. The article highlights how genetic data is helping to reveal much about the evolution of...
Request for partnerships on conservation projects for Australian species
Two fantastic opportunities are now available for partnerships on Conservation projects for Australian fauna and flora species as part of the Australian Amphibian and Reptile Genomics initiative and the Threatened Species initiative. The Australian Amphibian and...
How Australian research infrastructure supports global efforts during COVID-19
Professor Andy Lowe’s piece on how Australian research infrastructure supported global efforts during COVID-19 has been published on the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) website:...
Annual Report 2020
Annual Report 2020: Response and Recovery The last year has been like no other, with Australia in particular facing a succession of challenges related to drought, bushfires and the global pandemic. These have caused intense strain on individuals, families, communities...
Bioplatforms to partner on four high-impact data collaborations
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) has seeded the establishment of cross-NCRIS national data assets to support science across disciplines. The successful projects will bring together complementary types of data at a scale that provides new insights and...
Revealing the secrets of Golden Wattle
PRESS RELEASE9:00AM AEST31.08.2020 For more than 25 million years, wattles or acacias (genus Acacia) have grown on land now known as Australia. They have adapted to all of Australia’s extreme environments and many species have evolved resistance to fire,...
Annual Report 2019
Annual Report 2019: a catalytic year The 2019 year saw Bioplatforms Australia build on the May 2018 Commonwealth Government NCRIS funding announcements to commit to longer term arrangements with a national network of Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and...
Threatened Species Initiative announces pilot program
Using genetics to inform conservation of Australia’s threatened species The Threatened Species Initiative (TSI) brings together genome biologists, population biologists, bioinformaticians, population geneticists and zoologists with conservation agencies across...
Bioinformatics Commons
Towards an Australian Bioinformatics Commons: Announcing the Bioinformatics Commons Pathfinder Environmental, agricultural and biomedical research will all be enhanced by the Australian Bioinformatics Commons Pathfinder project. This investment will ensure...
Bioinformatics challenge solution
Biology is increasingly a digital science driving fundamental transformations of enormous value in health, agriculture and environmental management. As more data is generated by increasingly sophisticated instruments, the data intense biosciences are putting a strain...
Microbes in the environment
Revealing the hidden diversity of Australian microbes in the environment A new Australia-wide research framework initiative, the ‘Australian Microbiome’, brings together researchers from more than 40 institutions and government organisations across Australia to...
Devil of a discovery
A new publication from lead author Dr Amanda Patchett of the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute for Medical Research describes the unexpected discovery on the origin of the second transmissible facial Devil facial tumour disease (DFT2)....
Bioplatforms Australia COVID19 Offering
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Bioplatforms Australia coordinates the Commonwealth Government NCRIS investment in: Genomics: DNA and RNA Sequencing, virus particles and host response Proteomics: design and production of monoclonal antibodies,...
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