🌟 Our annual Online Career Q&A Session is back on Tue May 26th 2-3:30pm AEST Our panellists will share the career journey that led them to where they are now, including how they overcame challenges and the key wins that contributed to their professional success. 👉 Register at shorturl.at/AwkH2

Brisbane Bioinformaticians: Join colleagues for a Coffee Catch Up this week! Date and time: Wednesday, April 29th, 10:30 - 11:30am Location: Cafe Dose, UQ Herston Organised by @abacbs.bsky.social Brisbane Chapter. Come with a friend 🙂.

Have you registered for the upcoming ABACBS national seminar series? It's in a few days, Monday 13th of April between 12 noon and 1pm. The talks will include "allele-specific HLA dysregulation in lung cancer" & "microbial variant calling and phylogenomics" Register now 👇🏾

Very interesting read. www.asimov.press/p/bioinforma... (Thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for sharing over on the #ABACBS slack)

The ABACBS National Seminar Series will be back Monday April 13th, 12pm-1pm AEST, with speakers Dr. Clare Puttick and Dr Wytamma Wirth. uqz.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

🚨 CBA2026 Oral Abstract Deadline Extended 🚨 Take the opportunity to submit your oral abstracts by our new deadline April, 10th! 🎓 Students and postdocs are eligible for travel scholarships.

Bioinformaticians of Melbourne, the next ABACBS-Melbourne Bioinformatics Coffee Catch Up is this Thursday, 2 April. (Please note the new time/day for 2026!) Everyone is welcome. Details in the attached image. See you there!

🏆 Announcing the BioC2026 Sticker Design Winner: @kavyavns.bsky.social Kavya's design features well-known Seattle landmarks, including the Space Needle, the Seattle Great Wheel, Mount Rainier, and the surrounding evergreen forests. 👉 Register for BioC2026 here: ti.to/nf-projects/...

So good to hang out with @lucyleef.bsky.social and @laurabonofiglio.bsky.social in Perth Taking over the @abacbs.bsky.social Meetup to talk #phage

Brisbane Bioinfos! Coffee catch up this Wednesday.

We're all set for March BrisBio seminar! You're invited to hear about bioinformatics in CRISPR & reproducibility in TF analysis. 🗓️:Thurs 19th March by 1pm Tell a friend The location is QUT campus, and you're welcome to join online: uqz.zoom.us/j/8901226169... PW: 722570 #BioinformaticsEngagement

We are delighted to announce that #ABACBS2026 will be held at RMIT, Melbourne CBD campus from 16th to 20th November 2026. Big thanks to A/Prof. Sonika Tyagi and team for leading this years organising! More details and official conference launch to follow! #bioinformatics @combine1.bsky.social

Bioinformaticians of Brisbane, what does your day look like tomorrow? Join the @abacbs.bsky.social members for an informal meet and greet, and catch-up. Venue: Translational Research Institute, Woolloongabba 🕐: 10-11am #BrisbaneBioinformatics #Networking

🚀 Just launched: GraphBin Visualise (WASM) a browser-based visualisation tool for comparing initial metagenomic binning results vs refined results from GraphBin - all running in your browser, no backend required. (1/n) #bioinformatics #metagenomics #binning #webapp #pyiodide #webassembly

This is probably of interest to all the @abacbs.bsky.social binfies 🙂

Wonderful week at ABACBS and BioCAsia conferences in Adelaide, Australia. Thanks everyone who joined the workshop on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor, you made it awesome! @abacbs.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 #BioCAsia2025

That’s a wrap! Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for #ABACBS2025 & a big shout-out to the Adelaide bioinfo community who worked their butts off. Couldn’t have asked for a better crew or a better venue than Adelaide Oval. @wessidepraxis.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social

Client-side bioinformatics workshop done ✅ massive thanks to legends @lonsbio.bsky.social @lfeatherstone.bsky.social @torstenseemann.bsky.social #ABACBS2025

Our cornetto work is now published at www.nature.com/articles/s41... It can do near-T2T assembly using @nanoporetech.com adaptive sampling - with less 💸 - reference agnostic, so works for non-humans - not just blood, even saliva Just presented at #abacbs2025 yesterday.

Thanks so much to the 113 people who have answered the survey! If you haven’t already you can find it at lnkd.in/gJGfxftq or come see me at our poster! @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025

And also a fantastic keynote at #ABACBS2025 on this story!

Workshops underway this morning! #ABACBS2025

@acepigenetics.bsky.social team at #ABACBS2025! Grateful for the chance to help plan and organise this year’s meeting and to chair the single cell and spatial session, where my colleague and dear friend Ning is our invited speaker. Biggest congrats to @mmohenska.bsky.social for her poster award!

Thanks to the amazing Adelaide Bioinformatics community for making #ABACBS2025 an amazing event. We couldn’t have done it without you. A few more days of workshops to go before the festival finishes for another year 😀

Melbourne Integrative Genomics, UniMelb @mig-unimelb.bsky.social at #ABACBS2025 Amazing to have a big representation at @abacbs.bsky.social held in Adelaide.

Did my best to help a bit to get academic twitter back. Hopefully we can continue. Thanks and congratulations to @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social too. Thanks @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 for an amazing conference.

10 years ago I took a flight to Sydney to attend my first COMBINE. The support of @shazanfar.bsky.social @hdashnow.bsky.social and @lonsbio.bsky.social meant the world and I made so many friends that year I still get to hang out with.Thanks to everyone for a successful conference! #ABACBS2025

It was great to present TRECA at ABACBS 2025 as a lightening talk. Come find my poster #21. #ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social

With Slorado, now you have more choices for GPUs when basecalling @nanoporetech.com sequencing data. This is a work we collaborated on with AMD, led by PhD candidate @bonson-wong.bsky.social (poster at #abacbs2025) and great to see being highlighted in the AMD blog: www.amd.com/en/blogs/202...

The most upsetting UpSet plot from Adam Heterick's talk at #abacbs2025: only 2 genes are shared across these 8 organisations that provide guidance on pharmacogenomics 😭😭😱😱

Our prez @jessmar.bsky.social gave a shout-out to our Slack shameless-plugs channel. We’re all about boosting our members, which is why we’re leaning into Bluesky. Papers shared here get indexed by Altmetric, so growing this community turns into real, measurable impact for our members #ABACBS2025

PeterMac @petermaccc.bsky.social representing at #abacbs2025 What a community 😍

Voting has closed in our peoples choice poster awards! #ABACBS2025

10 incredible years of bioinformatics and computational biology community building by @abacbs.bsky.social - enjoying catching up with old friends at #abacbs2025 🥂 @aliciao.bsky.social @nadia-davidson.bsky.social @shazanfar.bsky.social @ellispatrick.bsky.social Jean Yang Belinda Phipson Milica Ng

Don’t forget to vote on the peoples choice poster away using the QR codes hung around the poster area. Tomorrow is a different set of posters. #ABACBS2025

Lunch with a view?? Yes please @abacbs.bsky.social #ABABCBS2025

@alforrest.bsky.social kicked off the Cancer and Molecular Medicine session at #ABACBS2025 giving us a new cell-cell interaction tool ConnectomeDB2025 www.connectomedb.org #ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social

Many of the resources we use regularly today were originally developed in the 1990s #abacbs2025

A great discussion today at #ABACBS2025 on the evolving landscape of research funding in Australia. Insightful perspectives, thoughtful questions, and a much needed conversation for our research community. @abacbs.bsky.social

Bit topical as @abacbs.bsky.social sits in a panel discussion about funding. 13% success rate on the DECRAs #ABACBS2025

Thanks Andrew!!

The McCarthy lab @davisjmcc.bsky.social is very excited to be in beautiful Adelaide for the 10th ABACBS conference. Look at our happy faces @aaronkwc.bsky.social @ameliadunstone #ABACBS2025

Packed house #ABACBS2025

Starting off #ABACBS2025 with a welcome to country by Robbie Young and Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC Governor of South Australia at Adelaide Oval @abacbs.bsky.social

So excited for the start of #ABACBS2025. It's been incredible to see this community grow over the last decade. Happy 10th anniversary @abacbs.bsky.social! 🎉

Global equity of data is only possible when countries can have ownership and generate their own data. Data equity and access to infrastructure is so important. A great presentation by @ebi.embl.org Interim Director Dr. Joanna McEntyre @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025

Well done to the outgoing and incoming #COMBINE2025 presidents! Very proud of both Liyang Fei and Caitlin Page, PhD students in my group! #ABACBS2025

Social drinks for #ABACBS2025 with @jamieleet.bsky.social and Emma and @ingridtarr.bsky.social the @egiannoulatou.bsky.social lab!

Very excited to be in Adelaide to attend #ABACBS2025 . Australia is a powerhouse of microbial genomics, and indeed of bioinformatics, so am very much looking forward to meeting everyone, old friends and new, and speaking tomorrow!