National eResearch to benefit from a $72M funding boost

The Federal Government delivered its response on Tuesday, 15 May, to the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Roadmap, announcing $72M of new National Research Infrastructure (NRI) funding over the next four years for capital investment in eResearch.

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Excellent response to this year's QCIF survey

A growing number of researchers have indicated that QRIScloud is becoming an increasingly critical component in helping them to deliver research outcomes.

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QCIF’s new UQ and Griffith board members

UQ’s Professor Joe Shapter and Griffith’s Professor Andrew Smith have joined QCIF’s board of directors.

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Monthly Hacky Hour introduced to USQ

Dr Francis Gacenga, QCIF's eResearch Analyst at USQ, has begun trialling a monthly Hacky Hour on the Springfield campus.

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Help for life scientists to submit data to international repositories

Making data publicly available is integral to the dissemination of research output. However, data submission to international repositories can be challenging. 

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Making Australia’s unique soil and marine microbiome data more accessible for all

Work started on the Australian Environmental Microbiome Research Data Cloud project last month, which will link significant national biological data sets with national biosciences computational infrastructure and services funded through the Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).

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Provisioner leads advances in research data management

University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in conjunction with QCIF are developing “Provisioner”, an open framework to integrate and simplify research data management.

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QCIF mints new Carpentries instructors for Queensland

QCIF is close to producing 16 new ‘The Carpentries’ instructors for Queensland after a successful instructor training session on 9–10 April in Brisbane.

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Carpentry in R underway at Griffith University

A diverse group attended this week’s QCIF-hosted Carpentries workshop in statistical software ‘R’ at Griffith University.

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Nicko Matigian joins QFAB as a Data Analyst

Nicholas (Nicko) Matigian has joined QFAB Bioinformatics as a data analyst, specifically as a biostatistician and bioinformatician.

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