Australia Bioinformatics Resource

Australia Bioinformatics Resource
Abbreviation EMBL-ABR
Formation 2011[1]
Location
Director
 Andrew Lonie
Deputy Director
 Vicky Schneider
Parent organization
 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Website www.embl-abr.org.au
Formerly called
 Bioinformatics Resource Australia - EMBL (BRAEMBL)

The Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR) (formerly the Bioinformatics Resource Australia - EMBL (BRAEMBL)) is a distributed national research infrastructure providing bioinformatics support to life science researchers in Australia.[2] The Resource was set up as a collaboration with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in order to maximise Australia’s bioinformatics capability. This close partnership is made possible in the context of Australia’s associate membership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

EMBL-ABR aims to:

  1. Increase Australia’s capacity to collect, integrate, analyse, exploit, share and archive the large heterogeneous data sets now part of modern life sciences research
  2. Contribute to the development of and provide training in data, tools and platforms to enable Australia’s life science researchers to undertake research in the age of big data
  3. Showcase Australian research and datasets at an international level
  4. Enable engagement in international programs that create, deploy and develop best practice approaches to data management, software tools and methods, computational platforms and bioinformatics services

EMBL-ABR is supported by Bioplatforms Australia and the University of Melbourne. EMBL-ABR Hub is hosted at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne.

In July 2016, EMBL-ABR announced an agreement to collaborate with GOBLET to develop training programs for bioinformatics.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Annual Report Bioplatforms Australia 2013" (PDF). Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "About - EMBL-ABR". Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "GOBLET agrees to collaborate with EMBL-ABR - EMBL-ABR". Retrieved 26 August 2016.

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