an overview about EMBL-ABR, including bioinformatics infrastructure initiatives at national and pan-national level across the globe and activities EMBL-ABR is currently doing.

1. A/Prof Vicky Schneider Deputy Director
A/Prof Andrew Lonie Director
Dr Philippa Griffin Open Data Coordinator

2. *http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v498/n7453/pdf/498255a.pdf
Data infrastructure in the genomic era

3. Digital infrastructure in the genomic era

4. History: Australia is big and distant

5. 2010: EBI Mirror project
Making research tools and data
accessible in Australia

6. Making research tools and data
accessible in Australia
2010: EBI Mirror project
Scalability?
EBI projection of infrastructure requirements 2015

7. EMBL Australia Bioinformatics Resource (BRAEMBL)
Mission:
1. Ensure we have access to the tools and data we
need to be globally competitive
2. Showcase Australian life science research
3. Advise, support and train

8. How?
Hosting: critical tools and data
Supporting: through network of
expertise and training
Contributing: Australian flagship
science (incl tools)
Collaborating and participating:
With world-leading institutes and
initiatives (EBI, ELIXIR, BD2K)
ReFuGe 2020:
Great Barrier Reef
Koala genome

9. Key Areas
EMBL-ABR is the vehicle for the Australian Bioinformatics community to actively participate in world’s best practice
bioinformatics, positioning our institutions at the forefront with international partners. Cyverse, ELIXIR, BD2K
.

10. Why do we need EMBL-ABR?
Examples:
• methods and tools: dev, long
term, adoption…
• Adoptability and adaptability of
Existing solutions OS: e.g.
ENSEMBL annotation service
• FAIR data and data resources:
AU data, flagship projects…
• Scalability and accessibility of
Training
• Direct participationand ensuring
AU needs are considered: standards
• Makingthe most of existing
“hard” Infrastructure
1. Ensure Australia has access to the
tools and data we need to be globally
competitive
2. Showcase Australian life science
research
3. Advise, support and train
Cloud
Data Scalable@ 10-20 PB
Data
@ 1-2 PB
HPC Capability
@ > 1 Pf/s
HPC
Specialise
d @ 100 Tf/s
Network Layer-1 @ Nx100Gb

11. National level bioinformatics?

17. Key Areas
EMBL-ABR is the vehicle for the Australian Bioinformatics community to actively participate in world’s best practice
bioinformatics, positioning our institutions at the forefront with international partners. Cyverse, ELIXIR, BD2K
.

19. ELIXIR
European Research
Infrastructure for Life
Sciences
A rapidly evolving international context

25. EMBL Australian Bioinformatics Resource
(EMBL-ABR) is a distributed national research
infrastructure providing bioinformatics support
to life science researchers in Australia.

26. EMBL-ABR aims to:
1. increase Australia’s capacity to collect,integrate,analyse,
exploit, share and archive the large heterogeneousdata sets
now part of modern life sciences research.
2. contribute to the developmentof and provide training in data,
tools and platforms to enable Australia’s life science
researchers to undertake research in the age of big data.
3. showcase Australian researchand datasets at an
internationallevel.
4. enable engagementin internationalprogramsthat create,
deploy and develop bestpractice approachesto data
management,software tools and methods,computational
platforms and bioinformatics services.

28. Key Areas
EMBL-ABR is the vehicle for the Australian Bioinformatics community to actively participate in world’s best practice
bioinformatics, positioning our institutions at the forefront with international partners. Cyverse, ELIXIR, BD2K
.

29. EMBL-ABR started in its
current form in Feb 2016
• hub – nodes network
structure
• hub hosted at VLSCI,
University of Melbourne
• 10 nodes at the
institution/organisation level
across Australia

32. +
Executive Team

35. Paul Flicek
Lead, Vertebrate
Genomics &
ENSEMBL
Jaap Heringa
Head, ELIXIR-NL
Vivien Bonazzi
Senior Advisor Data
Science Tech &
Innovation
Jason Williams
Education, Outreach
and Training Lead
Andrew Young
Director, National Research
Collections Australia, ACT
Mark Walker
Director, Aust Infectious
Disease Res Centre, UQ
Delphine Fleury
Aus Centre for Plant
Functional Genomics, SA
Sean Grimmond
Director, Centre for UoM
Cancer Research, VIC
Rebecca Johnson
Director, Australian Museum
Research Institute, NSW
Jenny Martin
Co-Director, Breakthrough
Science Program, Centre for
Superbug Solutions, UQ
International Scientific Advisory Group

48. Thanks!
Madison
Flannery
Developer
Simon Gladman
Research
Scientist
Philippa Griffin
Open Data
Coordinator

49. Thank YOU J
www.embl-abr.org.au