Abbreviation EMBL-ABR Director Andrew Lonie | Formation 2011 Deputy Director Vicky Schneider | |
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The Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR) (formerly the Bioinformatics Resource Australia - EMBL (BRAEMBL)) is a distributed national research infrastructure providing bioinformatics support to life science researchers in Australia. The Resource was set up as a collaboration with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in order to maximise Australia’s bioinformatics capability. This close partnership is made possible in the context of Australia’s associate membership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
EMBL-ABR aims to:
- Increase Australia’s capacity to collect, integrate, analyse, exploit, share and archive the large heterogeneous data sets now part of modern life sciences research
- Contribute to the development of and provide training in data, tools and platforms to enable Australia’s life science researchers to undertake research in the age of big data
- Showcase Australian research and datasets at an international level
- Enable engagement in international programs that create, deploy and develop best practice approaches to data management, software tools and methods, computational platforms and bioinformatics services
EMBL-ABR is supported by Bioplatforms Australia and the University of Melbourne. EMBL-ABR Hub is hosted at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne.
In July 2016, EMBL-ABR announced an agreement to collaborate with GOBLET to develop training programs for bioinformatics.