Case Studies

A University of Queensland research team is using state government bridge data, stored in QCIF’s cloud computer, to develop a new computational tool for automated generation of bridge information and analysis models. UQ project lead Dr Joe Gattas said the tool will enable more information to be available for quicker and closer bridge analysis.

A University of Southern Queensland researcher solved a health data project’s issues of storing and sharing non-open, non-sensitive data by using QCIF’s QRIScloud and Nextcloud services.

Tania Phillips, a Research Assistant at USQ’s Institute for Resilient Regions in the Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research, is part of a team looking at how to reduce the numbers of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presenting at Queensland hospital emergency departments. COPD includes illnesses such as lung disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

A University of Queensland led research project has created an open online repository of molecular topologies that has become a globally significant resource used in computational drug design and materials science. The research team used QRIScloud throughout much of the project and greatly valued its flexibility and scalability.

A James Cook University coastal ecology PhD student has developed a digital toolbox built in Python, created to “spy” on intertidal crabs in their natural environment.

Cesar Herrera Acosta used QRIScloud in his work to create 'Crabspy'. He also had support from QCIF's JCU-based eResearch Analyst and the helpers at JCU's Hacky Hour.

The QRIScloud-supported Australian Threatened Species Index project has recently released the world’s first Threatened Mammal Index. The index currently includes data for 57 mammal species and subspecies collected at 1,186 sites across Australia, but these numbers are growing as new data are added.

A significant University of Queensland evolutionary discovery published in Nature has had the helping hand of QFAB for the last four years. QFAB Database and Systems Administrator Nick Rhodes spends about one day a week working with the Degnan Marine Genomics Labs, with half of that day embedded within the research group.