As the Galaxy platform marks its 20th anniversary, it continues to play a pivotal role in advancing life sciences research globally. Galaxy is a collaborative platform for accessible, reproducible data analysis, and Galaxy Australia—delivered by Australian BioCommons—is one of its key international nodes.

Hosted on AARNet’s high-performance infrastructure, Galaxy Australia benefits from the reliability, scalability and bandwidth of Australia’s national research network. This enables it to seamlessly support thousands of researchers and students across the country and around the world.

Supporting a global research community

Galaxy Australia recently played a critical role in two major international events:

• The Singapore Biology League integrated Galaxy into a biology competition for over 2,000 pre-university students, who collectively ran more than 2,000 analysis tools over four hours.
• The Galaxy Training Academy, a week-long global learning event, attracted over 3,500 participants—including 73 Australian researchers—who accessed Galaxy Australia to complete bioinformatics training modules and get expert support from the local team.

These events showcased Galaxy Australia’s capacity to support large-scale training, education, and research through a user-friendly platform—all underpinned by AARNet’s national research infrastructure.

“AARNet infrastructure is absolutely critical to Galaxy Australia’s ability to serve the research community at scale,” said Gareth Price, Project Lead at Galaxy Australia. “It allows us to confidently support everything from major international training events to day-to-day research across a wide range of life science disciplines.”

“We’re proud to support the BioCommons team in delivering Galaxy Australia,” said Ryan Fraser, Director, Digital Research at AARNet. “By supporting digital platforms like Galaxy Australia, AARNet helps ensure researchers and students have access to the advanced tools they need to conduct cutting-edge science.”

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Read more about how the BioCommons and Galaxy Australia teams are advancing bioinformatics training and research in Australia and beyond in the original blog post.

Thousands join international Galaxy training events – BioCommons