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Join the 2024 Committee

Join the 2024 Committee 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 a purely online committee and would love to have …

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Join the 2023 Committee

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 a purely online committee and would love to have committee members from all …

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Join The 2023 Symposium Committee!

COMBINE is seeking expressions of interest to join the 2023 COMBINE Symposium Organising Committee! The COMBINE symposium is our premier annual event, held in conjunction with the ABACBS conference. It provides an opportunity for bioinformatics and computational biology students from across Australia to present their research. This year’s symposium will be held in late November / early December …

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Event Report: A day in the life of a bioinformatician

On 14th and 16th September 2021, COMBINE organised a bioinformatics workshop with virtual machines provided through Australian BioCommons, with 25 registrants across 6 states in Australia. This workshop introduced basic activities carried out by bioinformaticians including basic shell functions, version control with git, formatting documents with LaTeX and working with real biological data. Participants were …

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Virtual Interview: Fred Jaya

1. What is your current role? Finishing up a research Masters at UTS! My project looked at benchmarking recombination detection methods for viral sequences. 2. How did you end up in bioinformatics? “Bioinformatics” was mentioned in a final year genomics lecture as this awesome thing that used programming and computing to make sense of biological …

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Event report: Virtual Python Workshop

On 4th and 6th May 2021, COMBINE organised a python workshop, with 38 registrants across 6 states in Australia. This workshop covered basic concepts in python including pandas, data visualisation, and plotting with plotnine. Participants were presented with challenges after each section, which made the learning fun and interactive.

Upcoming: Student Networking Event (Adelaide)

Register now for our Adelaide Bioinformatics Students Networking Event, where you can meet other bioinformatics students around Adelaide and listen to how our guest speakers got introduced to bioinformatics and excelled in it! Catering will be provided so only limited spots are available. Get in quick before tickets run out!  What: A student networking eventWhen: 5:30pm – 7:30pm Friday, …

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