eResearch Australasia 2022

The 2022 conference will be held in a hybrid format, with the in-person component of the event to be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Brisbane conference will be the first opportunity for Australia's eResearch community to come together in the one physical location since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. More information

The eResearch Australasia Conference provides an opportunity for delegates to reengage, reconnect, and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information-centric research capabilities, and how information and communication technologies help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, understand and re-use information.

QCIF at eResearch Australasia

QCIF will be out in force at this year’s eResearch Australasia conference, with an exhibition booth and staff presenting talks.

The seven QCIF staff giving talks across 18–20 October (with workshops on 17 October), are as follows:

• Tuesday, 18 October, 11:40am–12pm: QCIF Head of Computational Biology Dr Gareth Price will present a national group’s work on supporting the discovery and reuse of workflows in bioinformatics. Workflows tested on Australian national computational infrastructures, including QRIScloud, QCIF’s cloud computing service, are registered on WorkflowHub, improving reusability and findability.

• Tuesday, 18 October, 2:55pm–3:15pm: QCIF Skills Development Manager Dr Mark Crowe and QCIF/Australian BioCommons Training and Communications Officer Dr Melissa Burke will join others to outline an Australian working group’s efforts to build DReSA (Digital Research Skills Australasia), a national portal for discovering Australasian digital research training events, materials, providers and trainers.

• Wednesday, 19 October, 10:25am–10:45am: QCIF Bioinformatician and Software Engineer Dr Cameron Hyde will present the work of QCIF, Melbourne Bioinformatics and Australian BioCommons on Galaxy Australia as a vehicle for cutting-edge biotechnology.

• Wednesday, 19 October, 12:15pm–12:35pm: Jason Bell, a CQUniversity-based QCIF eResearch Analyst, and Andrew Brazzatti, Technical Lead and Software Architect for the QCIF Software Solutions team, will present CQUniversity’s journey as a new user of ReDBox, a QCIF-managed research data management platform. Jason and Andrew will also discuss ReDBox’s newly-added automation functionality.

• Thursday, 20 October, 9:45am–10:45am: In a Birds of a Feather session, QCIF’s Griffith University-based eResearch Analyst, Amanda Miotto, will join a handful of others from Australia and New Zealand to discuss their work on launching an Australasian Research Bazaar (ResBaz) network.

In between checking out our staff presentations, make sure you visit the QCIF exhibition booth at the conference from 18–20 October. Ask our staff on the booth any questions you may have about our organisation and our services for researchers, government and industry.