At the University of Melbourne (or one of its affiliates)? Need Galaxy Australia support – or just want to learn more about it? Melbourne Bioinformatics has dedicated specialists who can advise you on tools, pipelines, datasets, and more. We can help. Get in touch!

Bioinformaticians of Melbourne, the ABACBS-Melbourne Bioinformatics Coffee Catch Up is back for 2026! The first one is tomorrow, Thursday, 5 March. (Please note the new time/day!) Everyone is welcome. See you there!

MBITE is the new home for all of our bioinformatics workshops and training content! It's a one-stop shop for what you need to know about attending our on-site training, with eligibility requirements. It's also a repository for our tutorials on everything from Unix to proteomics. And it's free!

In our "Hybrid Genome Assembly in Galaxy" workshop, Tristan Reynolds (Melbourne Bioinformatics) will lead you through the creation of high-quality genome assemblies using Nanopore and Illumina reads. Basic familiarity with Galaxy will be assumed, but no experience with sequencing reads is required.

Are you a University of Melbourne graduate student? Would you like to learn how to teach workshops in bioinformatics? You might be interested in our Graduate Student Training Program! This is a paid opportunity to gain practical experience in science communication.

Need in-house bioinformatics support for your research, but don't have the capacity? We can help! By embedding one of our expert bioinformaticians in your team, you'll have in-house access to -omics based analyses, bioinformatics pipelining and other specialised methods optimised to your own needs.

Last chance to sign up for our "Intro to Galaxy for Bioinformatics" workshop on 3 March! It's free and in-person, but only open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates. Register now!

Join our "Practicalities of Research Data Management" workshop with Gayle Philip (Melbourne Bioinformatics) to learn core research data management principles through practical examples and case studies, enabling you to develop strategies for file organisation, tidy data, backups, and data privacy.

Last chance to sign up for our "Intro to UNIX" workshop on 25 February! It's free and in-person, but is only open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates. Register now!

We regularly run free, hands-on workshops on all aspects of bioinformatics and data science – everything from basic Unix, R, Git and Python skills to de novo assembly, scRNA-seq analysis and variant calling! Open only to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates.

Our February newsletter is out! Inside you’ll find: • Say hello to MBITE, the new home for all our training material • Train the Trainer 2026 application deadline • First workshops for 2026: UNIX, Galaxy and RNA-seq • Research wins for our staff And a lot more!

In our "RNA-seq in R (from counts to genes)" workshop, you will learn to analyse RNA-seq data & identify differentially expressed genes using R & Bioconductor. Led by Luke Gandolfo (Melbourne Bioinformatics). When: 2 April Where: 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne

"RNA-seq in Galaxy (from reads to counts)" is a hands-on workshop for researchers wanting to turn RNA-seq reads into accurate gene count tables using Galaxy, with Tristan Reynolds (Melbourne Bioinformatics). When: 1 April Where: 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne Beginners welcome!

Join us for "Intro to Galaxy for Bioinformatics"! Discover how to navigate Galaxy Australia, run analyses & build reproducible workflows. Perfect for researchers new to the platform. Presenter: Tristan Reynolds (Melbourne Bioinformatics) When and where: 3 March, 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne

How would you like to apply your passion for #bioinformatics to a real-world research problem? We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct. If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!

If you work or study at the University of Melbourne or one of its affiliates, and you need help with a bioinformatics research problem, talk to us! We offer free 1-hour consultations on research design, grant writing, data analysis, general troubleshooting, and more. Get in touch here:

At the University of Melbourne (or one of its affiliates)? Need Galaxy Australia support – or just want to learn more about it? Melbourne Bioinformatics has dedicated specialists who can advise you on tools, pipelines, datasets and more. We can help. Get in touch!

"Intro to UNIX" – Master the command-line interface! Led by Khalid Mahmood (Melbourne Bioinformatics), this free in-person workshop on 25 February at 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne covers accessing Unix machines, organising files, managing permissions, and automating workflows with shell scripts.

"Intro to R for Biologists" – Learn to visualise biological data with R! Led by Jessica Chung (Melbourne Bioinformatics), this free in-person workshop on 24 February at 21 Bedford St, North Melbourne covers loading data, creating plots with ggplot, and working with RNA-seq data using tidyverse.

The University of Melbourne is getting off X! (Via Faculty of Science Dean's Circular)

Our social media will be on hiatus until 19 January. We wish all our followers from the University of Melbourne, the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct and beyond a happy, relaxing and safe holiday season. See you in 2026 for more training, teaching and research news from Melbourne Bioinformatics!

Need in-house bioinformatics support for your research, but don't have the capacity? We can help! By embedding one of our expert bioinformaticians in your team, you'll have in-house access to -omics based analyses, bioinformatics pipelining and other specialised methods optimised to your own needs.

How would you like to apply your passion for #bioinformatics to a real-world research problem? We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct. If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!

Our December newsletter is out! Inside you’ll find: • Luke Gandolfo's ARC grant success • an interview with Chol-hee Jung • Prof Bernie Pope on cancer genomics and global health • what's on over summer - and what's not!

Bioinformaticians of Melbourne, it's time to hang out! The last Bioinformatics Meetup for 2025 is at 10am this Thursday, on Zoom. Everyone is welcome. See you there!

If you work or study at the University of Melbourne or one of its affiliates, and you need help with a bioinformatics research problem, talk to us! We offer free 1-hour consultations on research design, grant writing, data analysis, general troubleshooting, and more. Get in touch here:

At the University of Melbourne (or one of its affiliates)? Need Galaxy Australia support – or just want to learn more about it? Melbourne Bioinformatics has dedicated specialists who can advise you on tools, pipelines, datasets and more. We can help. Get in touch!

Whether your background is in biology, biomedicine, mathematics/statistics, or computer science, there’s an entry point for you into the University of Melbourne's Master of Science (#Bioinformatics). Apply now for the March 2026 intake!

Need in-house bioinformatics support for your research, but don't have the capacity? We can help! By embedding one of our expert bioinformaticians in your team, you'll have in-house access to -omics based analyses, bioinformatics pipelining and other specialised methods optimised to your own needs.

Unfortunately, we've had to reschedule yesterday's Introduction to Proteomics workshop for 3 December. The good news is that if you missed out on a place, here's another chance to register! It's free and in-person but open only to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates.

From the @genomebrowser.bsky.social team in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2026 update | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Last chance to sign up for our "RNA-seq: Functional Enrichment Analysis" workshop on 23 October! It's free and in-person, but only open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates. Register now!

Last chance to sign up for our "scRNA-seq Integration and Differential Expression" workshop on 26 November! It's free and in-person, but only open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates. Register now!

We regularly run free, hands-on workshops on all aspects of bioinformatics and data science – everything from basic Unix, R, Git and Python skills to de novo assembly, scRNA-seq analysis and variant calling! Open only to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates.

How would you like to apply your passion for #bioinformatics to a real-world research problem? We co-supervise PhD students in a wide variety of research groups across the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Biomedical precinct. If you're interested in doing a PhD with us, get in touch!

If you work or study at the University of Melbourne or one of its affiliates, and you need help with a bioinformatics research problem, talk to us! We offer free 1-hour consultations on research design, grant writing, data analysis, general troubleshooting, and more. Get in touch here:

🧬 Research news! 🔬 Our bioinformatician Luke Gandolfo, with Prof William Heath and Lynette Beattie, has just won an ARC Discovery grant which will help us understand how the IL-4 cytokine regulates CD8 T cells, turning them into killers of cancer and other damaged cells. Congratulations, Luke!

Free workshop alert! "RNA-seq: Functional Enrichment Analysis" with Kezia Gitareja and Renee Papaluca (University of Melbourne) • Learn functional enrichment analysis on RNA-seq data using R packages like clusterProfiler, STRINGdb, and RegEnrich • Gain insights through pathways/network analysis

Free workshop alert! "scRNA-seq Integration and Differential Expression" with Susan Si and Raymond Zhao (University of Melbourne) • Four-hour hands-on session covering single-cell RNA-seq analysis using R and Seurat • Learn data import, quality control, sample integration

Free in-person workshop alert! Melbourne Bioinformatics presents "Introduction to Proteomics" - a comprehensive 4-hour workshop covering proteomic data processing, cleaning, and analysis using DIA-NN and limpa packages, led by Julia Broadbent (Bio21). Perfect for research beginners!

At the University of Melbourne (or one of its affiliates)? Need Galaxy Australia support – or just want to learn more about it? Melbourne Bioinformatics has dedicated specialists who can advise you on tools, pipelines, datasets and more. We can help. Get in touch!

Last chance to sign up for our "RNA-seq analysis: From Reads to Gene Counts with Galaxy" workshop on 23 October! It's free and in-person, but only open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates. Register now!

🔥Late breaking abstract submissions for poster presentations at the COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference are now open! Please note that this call is for posters only! ⏳Deadline: 31 October 2025 🔗Submit your abstract here, please use the provided template: forms.gle/TnEWMMcPz5m9...

Our Academic Lead, Prof Danny Park, on his pathway into bioinformatics and the biggest challenge for the field (plus: his favourite programming language!)

Whether your background is in biology, biomedicine, mathematics/statistics, or computer science, there’s an entry point for you into the University of Melbourne's Master of Science (#Bioinformatics). Apply now for the March 2026 intake!

Prof Bernie Pope on @ga4gh.org and the prospects for cancer genomics: “a significant knowledge gap exists in our understanding of the dynamic behavior of cellular systems as a whole. Although we still have a long way to go, progress is being made.” In the latest issue of Open Access Government

** Applications OPEN TODAY ! @pawseycentre.bsky.social

Last week we announced the Setonix-Q Pilot, a portal that provides Australian researchers with access to both silicon-based and quantum computing from Pawsey. Researchers are invited to apply for Setonix-Q Pilot access through the NCMAS call: my.nci.org.au/mancini/ncma... #hpc #quantum

Bioinformatician Grace Hall, one of our Master of Science (Bioinformatics) lecturers, reflects on her experience of being a student in the course she now teaches into.