2010
NSW Chief Scientist launches Genomic Data Analysis Project
The NSW Chief Scientist, Prof Mary O'Kane launched the Genomic Data Analysis (GDA) Project at UNSW on June 10. The GDA project, an initiative of the Intersect eResearch consortium, is focused on addressing the data management needs for the next-generation gene sequencing community. Currently, the user base includes the University of New South Wales (including the Ramaciotti Centre), Southern Cross University and the Australian National University. Details about the launch can be found here.
For more information about the GDA project, please click here.
Grants to date
Protein methylation, a fundamental regulator of the interactome.
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (Wilkins, $295,000).
This project will continue our proteome-wide analyses of protein methylation and study the manner in which it modulates protein-protein interactions in the interactome.
2009
Grants
Genomic Data Storage.
Australian National Data Service (ANDS) (Wilkins, Dawes, Henry & Shannon, $125,000).
This project is a continuation of the Genomic Data Storage project with Intersect. It will provide a research data store for next-generation data storage at the Ramaciotti Centre for Gene Function Analysis at the University of New South Wales.
Proteomic Discovery in the Genesis, Spread and Treatment of Cancer.
China-NSW Collaborative Research Program & NSW Office of Science and Medical Research (Baker, Hancock, Molloy, Clark, Wilkins, He, Jiang, Sun & Xing, $1,056,000).
The SBI will provide data analysis expertise to this project, which will use proteomics to study the progression of and biomarkers associated with liver cancer.
Orbitrap mass spectrometer for cancer proteomics and protein phosphorylation research projects.
Cancer Institute of NSW (Raftery, Guilhaus, Khachigian, Hogg, Wilkins, Kavallaris, Marshall, Cheung, Haber, Daly, Corish, Butt & Christopherson, $952,000).
The SBI is a member of a consortium which has raised funds for a new state-of-the-art Orbitrap mass spectrometer. This highly sensitive instrument is a powerful instrument for the analysis of proteins and protein post-translational modifications.
SBI becomes the Australian EMBnet node
The SBI is now the Australian node for EMBnet, an international consortium that brings together bioinformatics professionals from both academia and industry.
Proteomics Special Issue: A Celebration of Protein-Protein Interactions
The Interactorium is featured inside and on the cover of this special issue of Proteomics, which was edited by Director of the SBI, Prof. Marc Wilkins. For more information about the Interactorium, please click here.
The SBI was interviewed by Tim Dean on the Interactorium visualisation platform. This article was also featured in the January-February 2010 issue of Bio-IT World Magazine.
SBI involved in Genomic Data Analysis Project
The SBI has been involved in the launch of the 'Genomic Data Analysis Project', an initiative of the Intersect eResearch consortium. The project is focused on addressing the data management needs for the next-generation gene sequencing community, whilst also encouraging collaborations between different institutions. Currently, the user base includes the University of New South Wales (including the Ramaciotti Centre), Southern Cross University and the Australian National University. For more information about the GDA project, please click here.
SBI Students Win Poster Prizes
Congratulations to PhD students Ignatius Pang and Tim Couttas, who were each awarded a Poster Prize at the 14th Australasian Proteomics Conference (Lorne, Victoria) held in February. Their work was selected from over 100 posters at the conference. Both students are studying protein methylation networks in the model organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To date, they have shown that the methylation of proteins is much more widespread than previously thought and that this methylation may be involved in the control of protein-protein interactions.
2008
ARC Grant Success
The NSW Systems Biology Initiative is a member of the Intersect Consortium, which was recently awarded $500,000 from the Australian Research Council for the establishment of a new supercomputer. The computer will be a 10 teraflop cluster, which will boost local access to supercomputing ten-fold. It will have 2.5 terabytes of memory and up to 30 terabytes of attached storage, and will be housed at the AC3 data centre. The computer will support projects in the biosciences, such as those undertaken by the Systems Biology Initiative, as well as research in chemistry, photonics, materials science, nanotechnology, mathematics, physics and engineering.
Bioplatforms Australia Factsheet
Proteomics Editorial
Features paper "Are protein complexes made of cores, modules and attachments?"
Proteomics Podcast
Prof Marc Wilkins' interview for paper "Are protein complexes made of cores, modules and attachments?" (10 MB, 20min 57s)
2007
UNSW Media Release
The SBI receives $500,000 in funding from the New South Wales government.
2006
Proteomics Editorial
Features paper "Guidelines for the next 10 years of proteomics."
Proteomics Podcast
Prof Marc Wilkins' interview for paper "Guidelines for the next 10 years of proteomics." (9.3 MB, 26min 31s)