Bioinformatics Products Extending the Beacon Protocol for Pathogen Analysis and Response This blog explores the emergence of PathSBeacon for pathogen data, highlighting potential enhancements to the Beacon protocol's utility for researchers. PathSBeacon successfully adopted GA4GH's beacon protocol to facilitate pathogen genomic data exchange at scale.
Scientific publication Towards risk governance of clinical genomics in Australia Professionals within the clinical genomics system recognise the significant benefits of genomics in healthcare, but they hold divergent perspectives on the ethical, technical, and social risks involved.
Commentary Genomic Data Privacy in the Era of Decentralised Systems Genomic data privacy concerns addressed by DLT. Benefits: data ownership control, improved security, encrypted data sharing. Challenges: user adoption, user-friendliness
Conference Australasian Genomic Technologies Association - AGTA 2022 The AGTA 2022 conference was held on the Sunshine coast and celebrated the 20th anniversary with a variety of topics, including: cancer and medical genomics; plant and animal genomics; computational biology, bioinformatics and statistical genetics.
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
Conference Single Cells, Structural Variants and Tomatoes - AGTA2019 recap What conference mentions tomatos and genomics in the same talk? Read about what happened at #agta19
VariantSpark Video Tutorial: VariantSpark on the Cloud in a Few Clicks Video tutorial to get you setting up and running VariantSpark on the cloud in under 5 min.
Keynote ISMB-ECCB 2019 conference highlights This July I was fortunate to present at the largest international bioinformatics conference, ISMB-ECCB. It was held over 5 days in Basel, Switzerland and attracted over 1000 attendees with 10 parallel sessions each