Recap: Multi-omics Analysis Community Meeting, 28th May 2025
Tiffanie Nelson
Dear Multi-omics Community Members,
Thank you to all who participated in our Multi-omics Analysis Community Meeting held on May 28th. We had a productive and engaging session with valuable contributions from our speaker and participants.
✨Here are some of the highlights:
We were pleased to host Dr. Daniel Nebauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle, who presented his work on "A multi-omics approach to understanding toxic cyanobacterial bloom dynamics." Dan shared insights from his study employing metagenomics and metaproteomics over a year-long cyanobacterial bloom. Key findings included the identification of a specific microbiome driven by polysaccharide exudates from cyanobacteria and identifying taxonomic bias in metagenome-assembled genomes.
The meeting also included a discussion on standardising how Multi-omics Analysis results are shared. Participants highlighted challenges such as:
Transcriptomic, ATAC-seq, and metabolomics data are located in different repositories, making integration difficult.
Lack of internationally linked datasets for proteomics and ATAC-seq, and the absence of minimum requirements for data sharing.
The value of standardizing MOFA and MIXOMICS outputs for better comparison.
This was a continuation of discussions started in the last meeting held 19th March 2025 which included a presentation from Dr Jiadong Mao, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lê Cao Lab, The University of Melbourne on Discovery of spatial biology using Φ-Space and Dr Olivia Angelin-Bonnet, Statistical Scientist, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited on Comparing multi-omics integration tools with the moiraine R package. You can review the recording of this meeting here.
There was also discussion on creating a curated collection of Multi-omics resources. Please contribute any recommended training, videos, or tutorials to this spreadsheet.
A recording of the meeting is available here.
👣Next steps:
To further understand the global challenges and solutions around multi-omic metadata standardisation that we have discussed, I’ll be joining the Research Data Alliance’s Multi-omics Metadata Standards Integration Working Group to learn from the global community working and I’ll keep you updated on this. If you want to be involved more, please let me know.
We can work together on identifying the problem area for multi-omics data standardisation.
Contribute any recommended Multi-omics Analysis resources, including techniques, tools, workflows, training or tutorials to this spreadsheet.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for presentation topics and agenda items for future meetings.
⏩Next Meeting:
Our next Multi-omics Analysis Community Meeting is scheduled for August 6th, 2025. We will hear a presentation from Dr Roshan Regmi, CSIRO. Further details will be circulated closer to the date and the calendar invite is attached.
All are welcome so please share widely.
Regards,
Tiff
Let others know they can join this Multi-omics Analysis google group.
Genomics Research Community Engagement Lead
Australian BioCommons
The University of Melbourne
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