On 13th and 15th April 2021, COMBINE organised an R Workshop, participated by 26 students from across 5 states in Australia. This workshop covered basic concepts in R including Rmarkdown, data visualisation, and plotting with ggplot. Not only did the participants learn from lectures by the instructors, but also from challenges that they solved in breakoutrooms, …
To celebrate the amazing talent within the Australian bioinformatics community, we will be featuring fellow COMBINE members and senior researchers every month. We are also working on a student profile page on our website to showcase the diverse research conducted across Australia. We welcome students across any stage of their bioinformatics journey to submit their profile …
We had so much fun at the games night hosted by COMBINE on the 4th March 2021! This event connected COMBINE members across states in Australia to meet up virtually for a great night of networking disguised as fun. Stay tuned for the next socials hosted by COMBINE. We would love to see more people …
Register now for our upcoming Introduction to Python workshop delivered online via Zoom. This workshop will run for 2 days. Please note that during the workshop, all important communications will be in the workshop slack channel. Zoom and slack links will be emailed to you just before the workshop. We strongly recommend that you log …
Introduction to R and Data Visualisation Register now for our upcoming Introduction to R and data visualisation workshop delivered online via Zoom! This workshop will run for 2 days. Please note that during the workshop, all important communications will be in the workshop slack channel. You can also bring your own data to this workshop. There …
We are excited to open COMBINE recruitment for the 2021 committee! APPLY HERE Are you a current student studying computational biology or bioinformatics? Are you interested in being part of a community that supports students by planning events, encouraging social interactions and promoting technical skills — then come and join the COMBINE committee! We are …
The Australian Society for Microbiology (ASM) Queensland will be hosting a careers information afternoon for higher degree research students in microbiology or related life science disciplines. Three panellists with microbiology backgrounds from a range of areas in both academia and industry will share information about their roles, and how they got there. A social mixer to facilitate …
We are offering a two-day Introduction to RNA-seq workshop in Melbourne. In this workshop, you will be learning how to analyse RNA-seq count data, using R. This will include reading the data into R, quality control and performing differential expression analysis and gene set testing, with a focus on the limma-voom analysis workflow. You will …
Registrations and abstract submissions for the 2018 COMBINE Student Symposium are now open! The COMBINE Student Symposium is an annual, non-profit conference that aims to gather a diverse group of students and ECRs who are curious, passionate and eager to learn more about bioinformatics and computational biology. We also pride ourselves on providing a welcoming …