18 May 2022
Finding the genetic cause of lupus
A team of researchers have discovered a genetic variation that causes the debilitating disease Lupus. The supercomputing and data infrastructure at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
21 Jan 2022
Supporting national needs in high-throughput computing
NCI supports Australian researchers across all of their computational and data needs, from High-Performance Computing (HPC) through to High-Performance Data (HPD) and High-Throughput Computing (HTC)
27 Apr 2021
Generating great Australian science with giant research grants
NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the 2021 Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG). The highly competitive Grants will allow researchers to work on some
30 Mar 2021
Modelling a potential COVID-19 cure
Once the COVID virus enters the body, it binds to and enters a cell, and starts producing copies of itself. Each new viral particle that is released can then bind to a new cell, and thus the infection
09 Mar 2021
Chronic pain relief from the unlikeliest of places
Solutions to the problems we face can come from the strangest of places. The natural world has created an incredible array of molecules and proteins, some of which we can use to our advantage to
21 Oct 2020
Conservation Genomics Collaboration Helps Research Community
NCI’s strategic collaboration between and across conservation genomics research groups has enabled improved access to supercomputing, and enhanced development efforts to improve software and data
31 Aug 2020
Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset
Genetic medicine in coming years will benefit from the technical innovations that NCI and the Gadi supercomputer are now enabling. The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is refreshing its 4,000
20 Apr 2020
Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients
NCI Australia is supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through the provision of streamlined, prioritised and expedited access to computation and
31 Mar 2020
NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe
NCI’s Drishti VR technology, a custom-designed tool for visualising volumetric datasets in virtual reality, is now being used to teach students about the structures of different kinds of wood. Three
24 Jan 2020
Finding the homeland of modern humans
THE CHALLENGE: Where did modern humans first come from? Our development was determined by a combination of genetics, environment and climate, forces acting in concert over the millennia to lead us to
