Join us for an in-person workshop on Reproducible Computing Environments with Docker on 26 August 2025 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM AEST at 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne. This free event is exclusively for staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliated organisations.

Upcoming working group meetings are:
• Metadata, annotation & data sharing: Mon March 24th at 08:00 GMT / 09:00 CET / 18:00 AEST
• Data formats & interoperability: Fri March 28th at 9:00 GMT / 10:00 CET / 19:00 AEST

IO-FAST (Initiative for FAIR spatial data) is aiming to develop standards for sharing spatial omics data and metadata.

If you work on spatial omics data analysis or data management, you can join the discussion here: iofast.zulipchat.com/join/kvkrqoa...

#bioinformatics #spatial #SpatialOmics

If you're a dev who uses #monday.com, you might be interested in mondantic, a library I developed for generating and populating Python dataclasses from your boards.

github.com/WEHI-Researc...

#monday.com #monday #pydantic #python

I've open sourced RdfCrate, a Python library I've been using to generate RO-Crates for research metadata.

It was motivated by finding that RDF triples are easier to work with than JSON-LD, and that rdflib is a brilliant foundation to build on top of.

github.com/WEHI-SODA-Hu...

#rocrate #rdf #rdm

We're hiring a Research Computing Engineer for my team at WEHI: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/j.... Please send this to anyone you know who might be interested!

#rse

Two hours of `gatk ValidateSamFile` can save 2 seconds of `samtools quickcheck`, as it turns out.

#bioinformatics