BSEP Bioinformatics Student Exchange Program (BSEP) 2023 The Bioinformatics Student Exchange Program (BSEP) is open for 2023, offering remote as well as options to travel to Australia. BSEP is aimed at overseas students, giving them the opportunity to contribute to
Scientific publication Machine Learning provides early warning for emerging COVID-19 variants Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have developed a faster and more comprehensive way to identify emerging and dangerous COVID 19 variants, by analysing the DNA of the whole variant, rather
Research Project Increasing the vehicle capacity for gene therapy Gene therapy or living drugs is one of the most exciting areas of biotechnology, and we’d like to tell you about some of the progress we’ve made in expanding the potential
case study Case Study: Boosting product confidence of a world-leading RNA therapeutics start-up CSIRO’s Transformational Bioinformatics group validates the importance of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as novel cancer therapeutics targets. The ClientAmaroq Therapeutics is a New Zealand-based biotechnology company targeting long non-coding RNAs for next
Explainer Scissors, glue or white-out? Using the CRISPR pencil-case Since the original demonstration that CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to induce targeted changes in a cell's genome, there has been an explosion of new versions and variations of different CRISPR systems. While some
Conference Working Towards Genetic Equity at the 43rd Annual Lorne Genome Conference Last week, the 43rd annual Lorne Genome conference was held in a hybrid format with face-to-face participation at Mantra Lorne as well as through an online portal. Our team presented an oral presentation
Scientific publication Finding viral integrations with isling CSIRO has published a software tool to detect if and where viral DNA has integrated into the genome of its host. This helps assess the consequences of a viral infection and the safety
Cutting Edge Virtual Symposium on Coronaviruses with Disease-X Potential, 28-30 September 2022 contact covsymposium@csiro.au
BSEP Bioinformatics Student Exchange Program (BSEP) 2022 The Bioinformatics Student Exchange Program (BSEP) is back, offering remote as well as options to travel to Australia. BSEP aimed at giving overseas students the opportunity to contribute to world-class research and gain
Dementia Discovering novel drivers of Alzheimer’s disease through genetic interactions Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and predominantly affects people over 65 years old. Alzheimer’s disease is driven by multiple genetic and environmental influences, including complex interplay between
Grant Australian Office of National Intelligence funds research project to detect artificially manipulated genomes Dr. Aidan Tay was awarded $350,000 for a two-year fellowship by the Australian Office of National Intelligence to detect artificially manipulated genomes for biosecurity applications. Australia needs protection from biological threats that
Scientific publication New software-guided approach streamlines genome editing capability CSIRO has developed a computational tool for a new genome editing approach that makes research and clinical applications more effective. The approach consists of a new gene editing strategy developed by the University
Scientific publication BitEpi, a software tool to find hidden epistatic interactions in the genome The Transformational Bioinformatics Group published BitEpi, a software tool to find the hidden gene-gene interactions in the genome. Complex diseases are driven my multiple genes and understanding this interplay could be the holy
Scientific publication Detecting foreign DNA with INSIDER The Transformational Bioinformatics Group have published a new software, INSIDER, for detecting foreign DNA in the genome. The tool helps streamline the process of finding genetic elements that are different to the rest
COVID-19 COVID-19 drug repurposing Our 'sySTEMs initiative' is a play on words: systems biology + stem cells. We have been recently awarded $1M by the MRFF, with the CSIRO contributing another $0.7M. Why? Because vaccines cannot prevent
Explainer The Many Ways to the Cloud (Part 1): Lift-and-shift This Explainer-series is aimed at describing the “many ways to the cloud”. It help you choose the best way of porting your research onto the cloud. Running your research on public cloud infrastructure
Conference Polygenic Risk & The Road Ahead - APRS21 This year, the second Australian Polygenic Risk Symposium (APRS) was held virtually over three days in the last week of April. It brought together multidisciplinary experts across research, industry, and education from around
Scientific publication A Score Card for Genome Editing Techniques (GOANA) The Transformational Bioinformatics Group published a new software (GOANA [1]) to score genome editing approaches: It helps make Gene Therapy become a reality, by detecting and comparing rare mutations that may be accidentally
Grant Australian Academy of Science funds cloud-analytics platform to support COVID-19 recovery in the Asia-Pacific region. The Australian Academy of Science in partnership with the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources has funds the Transformational Bioinformatics group to develop a cloud-based platform for the secure and robust sharing
Scientific publication Defining a global standard for COVID-19 patient data collection To fight COVID-19 we need to understand the functional consequences of viral mutation. However, only 13% of current entries in the world’s largest COVID-19 virus database (GISAID) have the necessary information about
Diversity and Inclusion International Women's Day 2021 International Women’s Day is about championing women to lead others and achieve their goals. It also gives the opportunity to celebrate the people who are making it possible for women to have
COVID-19 Our COVID video is in The NewsCred Top 20 The video we produced with the amazingly creative Kashmi Ranasinghe was highlighted in the NewsCred Top 20, which recognises brands that represent the best of content marketing in 2020. Congratulations to CSIRO for
Awards CSIRO awarded NSW iAward for VariantSpark Innovation Australian innovator CSIRO has been awarded the merit of the Public Sector category at the NSW Australian Information Industry Association iAwards, which unearths, recognises and rewards excellence in Australian innovation. Delivered by Australia’
AEHRC AEHRC: 19/20 Annual Report - COVID, Artificial Intelligence and more The Australian E-Health Research Center (AEHRC), which the Transformational Bioinformatics Group is part of, just published its annual report for 2019-20. It provides an overview of the great work that our scientists, engineers
Genome Insights Trillion data points to identify disease-causing genes Researchers from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have accomplished a world-first by processing one trillion points of genomic data through VariantSpark, an artificial intelligence-based platform, which can help pinpoint the location of
