Jeremy Barker, QFAB CEO, has returned from a Churchill Trust funded international tour to undertake a study on “Management Best Practice in the Delivery of Bioinformatics to Researchers.
View the Churchill report here
QFAB will underpin the bioinformatics research of the National Breast Cancer Research project led by Associate Professor Christine Clarke of the Westmead Millenium Institute.
The aim of this 5 year project is to study the body’s nuclear receptors to discover and fast-track information to help with prevention, identify new treatments and boost existing treatments. Day-to-day operations will be embedded in QFAB, which will implement and manage technologies to support real-time collaboration in data analysis and knowledge discovery across all project teams..
The Australian mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser is established
The mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser has been established. It enables partners to access dedicated and private resources with the ability to store their own tracks.
SRS now available to QFAB partners
SRS is a platform for life-science database and application integration, providing rapid, easy and user-friendly access to the large volumes of diverse data stored in hundreds of internal and public domain databases. SRS enables access to all of this diverse biological and life science data through a single user interface. Since these databases may hold references to other sources of information, i.e. other databases, SRS is able to use these references to explore the relationships between the different sources of biological data.
The Australian mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser ready for testing at the Institute fot Molecular Bioscience
The prototype of the mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser has been deployed and is available for testing and benchmarking by users of the Institut for Molecular Bioscience.
September 2007
The KOALA portal is live
The KOALA program is a Child Obesity Management, Education and Research Program requiring the capture of a range of data about a set of individuals, including clinical phenotype, genotype, psychometric, nutrition and physical activity data.
QFAB is providing a portal for researchers and participants in the trial and to support the data management life cycle, from data capture and secure storage through to support for the analysis of the data.
January 2007
QFAB to manage the Australian mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser
QFAB will manage the mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser being implemented at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience. The Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO - Livestock Industries will be attributed dedicated and private resources.
11 April 2006
Queensland Bioinformatics Research Receives $2.5 Million Kickstart [PDF: 30KB]
The Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at The University of Queensland has been awarded $2.7 million in Smart State grants, Deputy Premier Anna Bligh announced today. Professor Mark Ragan from IMB and Dr Anthony Maeder from the e-Health Research Centre will receive $1.9 million to establish the Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB).