Melbourne Bioinformatics
Providing bioinformatics support for all researchers and students at the University of Melbourne and across the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct. North Melbourne, Australia. mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/melbournebioinformatics
- "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.
- Open to University of Melbourne staff, students, and affiliated organisations only. Registration requires an affiliated institutional email address. www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-r...
- Reposted by Melbourne BioinformaticsThe 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.
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- 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!
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- 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
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- Reposted by Melbourne BioinformaticsLast 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reposted by Melbourne BioinformaticsIt's our 9th birthday and you're all invited to celebrate with us! 💜 We are partnering up with the Statistical Society of Australia to host a Social Night! 🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 📅 Thu 16 Oct, 5-7pm 📌 Father's Office #StatSocAus #rladies #stats #rstats
- Our October newsletter is out! Inside you’ll find: • Grace Hall on what she learned in the Master of Science (Bioinformatics) - which she now teaches! • an interview with our Academic Lead, Prof Danny Park • what's on in October and November • plus all our upcoming workshops!
- 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 doing a PhD with us, get in touch!
- Register now for our "Intro to Python Workshop"! Learn to load, explore and visualise biological data using pandas and matplotlib libraries: • Load tabular data into Python • Calculate basic statistics • Filter and slice data • Create scatter plots and boxplots • Modify plot appearance
- Last chance to sign up for our "Intro to Galaxy for Bioinformatics" workshop on 1 October! It's free and in-person, but only open to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliates. Register now!
