Recording from the August 2025 Microbiome Analysis Community Meeting

[Tiffanie Nelson]

Dear all,

I am following up on the Microbiome Analysis Community Meeting held in early August. Thank you to everyone who attended.

At our recent meeting, Dr. Cameron Hyde delivered a presentation titled "Taxonomic classification of biological specimens based on DNA analysis." Cam showcased a project developed with his QCIF colleague, Dr. Magda Antczak. This project offers a user interface that leverages BLAST for identifying nucleic acid sequences of interest, complemented by visual interpretation tools. You can access the meeting recording here.

During the meeting, I invited attendees to express their interest in joining our FAIRyMAGs Hackathon! We will work in Melbourne while connecting with our European colleagues to Optimise Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) Workflows in Galaxy. Please let us know if you’d like to attend. It will be held from October 7-10. Further details are available here.

Our next Microbiome Analysis community meeting will be held on Tuesday 28th October, 13:00 - 14:30 AEDT. Please let me know if you have a topic of interest to present to the group or an agenda topic. 

Regards,

Tiff

You can join the Microbiome Analysis community mailing list with your desired account by emailing metagenomic...@biocommons.org.au (NB - this gets around the need to have a google account)

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Tiff Nelson, PhD (she/her)

Genomics Research Community Engagement Lead
Australian BioCommons

The University of Melbourne

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