The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) became a national institution today with $20 million in funding from the federal and Queensland governments.

Health research data and medical images are about to go live at Melbourne Health.

New Zealand's University of Canterbury will be the first research institution in the southern hemisphere to have an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer.

The National Blood Authority has refreshed its IT infrastructure to cope with the increasing complexity of supply.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) has announced details of its next generation supercomputer, which according to executive director John O'Callaghan, has a chance to be one of the top 30 in the world. The supercomputer will provide a computing environment for more than 600 researchers across areas such as the environment, bioinformatics, astronomy, chemistry and physics.

Australia's intellectual property governing body, IP Australia, has embarked on a world-leading web services project that will enable electronic patent lodgement to reduce the amount of manual processing required.

Australia's bioinformatics industry will increasingly rely on open source software as researchers look for inexpensive point solutions that are not just a 'black box', according to delegates at a recent bioinformatics symposium in Sydney.

Australian biotechnology research and manufacturing company Proteome Systems has expanded its hardware infrastructure by integrating blade servers into its protein analysis platform.