Australia Bioinformatics Resource
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|location = Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
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|leader_title = Director
|leader_name = Andrew Lonie
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|leader_name2 = Vicky Schneider
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|website= {{URL|www.embl-abr.org.au/}}
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|former name = Bioinformatics Resource Australia - EMBL (BRAEMBL)
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The Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-ABR) (formerly the Bioinformatics Resource Australia - EMBL (BRAEMBL)) was a significant initiative under the associate membership to EMBL.
Since 2019, all activities carried out under EMBL-ABR have rolled over into the Bioplatforms Australia (NCRIS-funded) Australian BioCommons, under new funding agreements and led by Associate Professor Andrew Lonie.
EMBL-ABR aimed 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 was supported by Bioplatforms Australia and the University of Melbourne. EMBL-ABR Hub was hosted at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) at the University of Melbourne.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
In July 2016, EMBL-ABR announced an agreement to collaborate with GOBLET to develop training programs for bioinformatics.{{cite web|title=GOBLET agrees to collaborate with EMBL-ABR - EMBL-ABR|url=https://www.embl-abr.org.au/goblet-news-july-2016/|accessdate=26 August 2016}}