specialists accessible through its help request system. Life Sciences Computation Centre The VLSCI Life Science Computation Centre (LSCC) was physically housed at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and with many staff working at various research institutes including the Peter Doherty Institute for some portion of their week. The LSCC was a distributed pool of expertise and infrastructure for computational life science research, servicing life science research institutions across Victoria. It aimed to foster research collaboration and support to a relatively small number of specific external projects; act as a source of common resources, software platforms and expertise to support life science researchers; offer research training, education, and career development for bioinformaticians and computational biologists, to support the advancement of the Victorian computational life sciences research community; and support the advancement of life science computation as a whole in Victoria. Galaxy Australia Melbourne Bioinformatics together with QFAB Bioinformatics, QCIF and the University of Queensland’s Research Computing Centre jointly built and operate Galaxy Australia which is a major feature of the Genomics Virtual Laboratory. See also National Computational Infrastructure References Bioinformatics organizations University of Melbourne Science and technology in Melbourne