EMBL-ABR Annual Report 2016

Dear Colleagues

The past twelve months have seen the transformation of this bioinformatics initiative into a structured, networked enterprise. We have demonstrated a working model for maximising the resources and skills existing amongst our own life science community and for mobilising them to connect with international expertise and resources, to ensure our research remains world class.

Our small team at the Hub hosted at VLSCI (now Melbourne Bioinformatics), working with limited resources, has successfully communicated our shared vision and created the mechanisms for the community to come together on our shared objectives.

EMBL-ABR has rapidly garnered significant support and fostered collaborative relationships with the European Bioinformatics Institute, the European Union’s ELIXIR and the United States’ CyVerse and National Institute of Health’s BD2K initiatives, extending the Australian life science community’s national and international engagement activities.

Our thanks to Bioplatforms Australia and the University of Melbourne for their ongoing investment in EMBL-ABR and to all the other people from institutions both here and overseas who have willingly given their own time and energies to us to help us achieve so much to date. It is going to be through that good will that we will be able to demonstrate how a community for bioinformatics can benefit Australian research and industry and thereby attract the necessary infrastructure funding we need to realise our goals.

Finally, our thanks to the team at Melbourne Bioinformatics who rose to the challenge to incorporate these tasks into their already full-time jobs to support so much of the activity as documented in this Report.

We commend this Report to all and thank you for your ongoing interest in, and support for, our work.

Yours sincerely

Assoc Prof Andrew Lonie, Director, EMBL-ABR
Assoc Prof Vicky Schneider, Deputy Director, EMBL-ABR

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