Health

The wide field of health and medical science covers everything from improved diagnosis of illness to the development of new drugs and treatments. At NCI, researchers are applying computational and big data techniques to the big world of human health.

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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)

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Research Collaborations

09 Dec 2021

NCI and NCIG are building the foundation for long-term dynamic consent for genome research

Health

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia’s peak supercomputing and big data facility, and the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG) at The Australian National University are

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Research Collaborations

04 Nov 2021

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Earth and Environmental Science

Health

Materials

Technology

NCI is one of more than 20 projects supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These projects provide vital research infrastructure for all of Australia’s

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Research Collaborations

01 Jul 2021

Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts

Health

Technology

NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium. Joining the esteemed group as a Collaborating Initiative, known as the

Research Highlights

11 May 2021

A long-term project for improving the health of Indigenous Australians

Health

Australian health care is moving towards using genomics for diagnosing and treating rare diseases and cancers. However, the majority of reference datasets currently available feature mostly European

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Research Highlights

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

The cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B featuring the interaction of proteins vital to the binding of COVID-19 to human cells.

Research Highlights

30 Mar 2021

Modelling a potential COVID-19 cure

Biology

Health

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

Research Highlights

27 Oct 2020

The impact of GPUs in modern medicine

Health

UNSW PhD candidate, visiting student at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and bioinformatics tool developer Hasindu Gamaarachchi is using NCI’s heterogenous architecture – its integrated mix of

Research Highlights

31 Aug 2020

Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset

Biology

Health

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

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Research Highlights

20 Apr 2020

Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients

Biology

Health

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

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The wide field of health and medical science covers everything from improved diagnosis of illness to the development of new drugs and treatments. At NCI, researchers are applying computational and big data techniques to the big world of human health.

Supporting national needs in high-throughput computing

NCI and NCIG are building the foundation for long-term dynamic consent for genome research

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts

A long-term project for improving the health of Indigenous Australians

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

Modelling a potential COVID-19 cure

The impact of GPUs in modern medicine

Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset

Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients

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