Workshop 3
Bioinformatics across AAGI: Automating Reproducible Bioinformatics WorkflowsIllustration of workshop 3 bioinformatics workflows

Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Venue: Curtin, 137 St Georges Terrace, Room: Gallery

Chairs: Ulduz Vafadarshamasbi and Irina Kuznetsova

📍 Please note this is an off-site session

The venue is approximately 800 m, or a 10-minute walk, from the QT Hotel Perth.

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Summary

This workshop will showcase how modern computational approaches are shaping genomic and omics research. It will begin with a focus on Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and federated analytics and learning in omics, highlighting how secure and controlled research environments can support the analysis and sharing of sensitive or distributed data while enabling collaboration across institutions. The workshop will also highlight reproducible workflows, computational approaches and tools being developed and applied across different areas of bioinformatics, providing an opportunity to share expertise, build connections and explore future opportunities for collaboration across AAGI.

Agenda

TIME SESSION
11:00 - 11:10 Opening and workshop overview
Dr Irina Kuznetsova
11:10 - 11:40 Invited presentation
Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and federated analytics/learning in omics
Prof Nicola Armstrong
11:40 - 12:40   Research case studies: Reproducible workflows in practice
Bioinformatics workflow and automation across AAGI
11:40 - 11:50 Single-cell analysis and workflow package development
Dr Irina Kuznetsova
11:50 - 12:00 Quality and adaptor trimming of short sequencing reads
Dr Mario Fruzangohar
12:00 - 12:10 QTL/GWAS analytics with wgAim
Dr Beata Sznajder
12:10 - 12:20 From eQTL to network construction
Dr Dinesha Jayawardana
12:20 - 12:30 Genotype imputation in plant genomic studies
Dr Huan Zhao
12:30 - 12:40 Automation, portability, reproducibility: OpenWDL and Sprocket
Mr George Malone
12:40 - 13:00 Community discussion and closing remarks
Advancing bioinformatics across AAGI
Dr Irina Kuznetsova + all contributors

Timing note: The workshop is scheduled to start at 11:00 am, with a 20-minute collaborative discussion concluding the main program to explore forward-looking directions for bioinformatics across AAGI.

Resources

  • Slides: Coming soon