QCIF is one of the organisations helping to train genomics researchers nationwide in NGS analysis on the Galaxy Australia bioinformatics platform.
Professor Naomi Wray's group at UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience has recently gained $900,000 in funding to build upon and roll out nationally the Motor Neuron Disease patient symptom tracking system that began as a prototype at last year’s Health Hack Brisbane event.
Thanks to new investment from its members, and the support of the NCRIS Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) project, QCIF has several capital projects underway.
USQ researchers now have access to the new USQ Research Data Bank (ReDBank) service, which makes it straightforward to store, share and synchronise data during research projects.
The QCIF-developed open source ReDBox research data management platform had a strong presence at this year’s Open Repositories conference, held 4–7 June at Montana State University.
Jamie Leach has joined QCIF’s collaborator the Open Data Institute (ODI) Australian Network as its new CEO. She replaces outgoing CEO Scott Waters.
QCIF is one of the first to successfully apply the Australian Access Federation’s implementation of OpenID Connect, integrating it with the XNAT imaging informatics platform to allow researchers to seamlessly log in using their local institutional credentials.
When James Cook University PhD student Alyssa Budd needed help analysing the ‘omics data she needed for her thesis, she called on QFAB’s Analysis Hotel.
New technology continues to offer better solutions for researchers, as QCIF happily witnessed at a national meeting earlier this month over software for high-performance computing.
Professor Matt Bellgard, QUT’s inaugural eResearch Director, has joined QCIF’s board of directors.
NCI Australia’s new Gadi supercomputer has been ranked as number one in the southern hemisphere and number 47 in the world in the latest Top500 list, released last November.
Read more ...Google is investing in QCIF-managed ReDBox to make it easier for users to access the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) via the research data management tool.
Read more ...The recent public health emergency arising from the COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the necessity for a rapid, collaborative and international response.
Read more ...John Bancroft will become QCIF’s new CEO as of Monday, 9 March 2020.
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