Case Study: Australian BioCommons scales national bioinformatics access with Seqera

Australian BioCommons supports 340+ researchers with Seqera

Australian BioCommons, a provider of digital research infrastructure for Australia's life science community, faced challenges in delivering standardized bioinformatics tools across a diverse and fragmented national research landscape. With limited resources and disparate computing infrastructures, they struggled to provide a seamless, scalable experience for researchers from over 40 different organizations. They partnered with vendor Seqera to address these challenges using the Seqera Platform.

By implementing Seqera's platform as a centralized national service, Australian BioCommons launched the Australian Nextflow Seqera Service. This solution provided researchers with a command post to manage and monitor pipelines at scale. The results included standardized bioinformatics analysis nationwide, scaled compute access beyond institutional limits, and annual savings of $50k AUD on licensing and support costs. The service now supports more than 340 researchers, demonstrating Seqera's role in enabling large-scale collaboration.

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