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Ables participant: The Australian Amphibian and Reptile Genomics (AusARG) initiative

Project title

Bioinformatics analyses for the Australian Amphibian and Reptile Genomics initiative

Collaborators and funding

Contact(s)

Project description and aims

The Australian Amphibian and Reptile Genomics Initiative (AusARG) is a national collaborative project that will facilitate research using genomics approaches towards a more thorough understanding of evolution and conservation of Australia’s unique native amphibians and reptiles that are now under threat, through climate, disease or habitat modification.

AusARG’s mission is to build genomic resources to understand and protect Australia’s reptiles and amphibians.

  • Reference genomes
  • Phylogenomics
  • Conservation and Taxonomy genomics

GitHub link

How is ABLeS supporting this work?

This work is supported through the reference data asset creation scheme provided by ABLeS. The support includes 135 TB long term storage, 1 TB temoprary storage on scratch and 100 KSUs per quarter.

Expected outputs enabled by participation in ABLeS


These details have been provided by project members at project initiation. For more information on the project, please consult the contact(s) or project links above.