Month: September 2020

Dr Eleanore Blereau1,2, Ms Amanda Bellenger1, Prof Brent McInnes1,2 1Curtin University, Bentley, Australia 2John de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia Introduction The project set out to secure, digitise, and make publicly available the physical specimens and associated records in...

Dr Michael Kuiper1, Dr Tim Ho2 1CSIRO, Docklands, Australia 2CSIRO, Clayton, Australia The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) attaches to human cell through its spike (S) protein receptor binding domain (RBD) to ACE2 proteins to begin the infectious process. We used molecular...

Dr Jenni Harrison1 1Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia Background Achieving gender diversity in the workplace remains a challenge.  The recent Covid-19 pandemic has in some ways reduced the challenges faced by some women, but at the same time has increased some...

Dr Jenni Harrison1 1Australian eResearch Organisations, Australia Introduction Australian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) aims to support eResearch practices, capabilities and standards in Australasia helping researchers and organisations alike.  Correspondingly, AeRO has identified a need for a national eResearch mentoring program.  Great...

Dr Marie-Jo Brion2 1QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia (AUS) 2Australian Genomics Health Alliance, Melbourne, Australia Introduction: Data sharing is vital in genomics, where research and new discoveries typically rely on the availability of large and diverse datasets. However,...

Dr Tiff Nelson1,2,3, Dr Andrew Lonie1,4, Dr Johan Gustafsson1,4, Dr Jeff Christiansen1,3,5 1Australian BioCommons Australia, 2Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia 3Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation, Brisbane, Australia 4University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 5University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Background The Australian BioCommons...

Mr Joseph Bell1, Mr Shane Crossman1, Ms Irina Bastrakova1 1Geoscience Australia Increasingly, crisis situations require transparent, verifiable and trusted information. Solutions commonly have to simultaneously cover multiple diverse use cases (e.g. social, environmental and economic). The 2020 Australian bushfire crisis...

Nicholas May1, Ghulam Murtaza2, Thomas Shafee3 1RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 2Intersect Australia 3La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia The organic growth of the eResearch community has resulted in skill sets being packaged up under a range of different role titles and...

Ms Irina Bastrakova1, Mr Shane Crossman1, Mr Joseph Bell1, Ms Tina Yang1 1Geoscience Australia The pace, with which government agencies, researchers, industry and the public need to react to national and international challenges of economic, environmental and social natures, is...

Dr Ivana Ivánová1, Dr Lesley Wyborn2, Dr Mingfang Wu3, Mr Miles  Nicholls5, Ms Irina Bastrakova4 1Curtin University, Perth, Australia 2Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 3Australian Research Data Commons, Melbourne, Australia 4Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia 5Atlas of Living Australia, Canberra, Australia...