Biological Science

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative, digital, open infrastructure that pulls together Australian biodiversity data from multiple sources, making it accessible and reusable.

Leading Australia’s response to climate change and sustainable energy use, and protect our environment, heritage and water.

In 2016, CSIRO announced that it would invest $13 million in the Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform (SynBio FSP). SynBio was identified as a rapidly expanding multi-billion-dollar industry with significant potential for generating societal benefits and commercial opportunities.

Resource Library of publications released by Australia’s Chief Scientist. The Chief Scientist provides authoritative and independent science advice on whole-of-Government science and technology priorities, to ensure the best evidence informs Government decision-making.

This is a free online public enquiry database that provides taxonomic and biological information on the Australian fauna. The database is constantly being updated and expanded with the addition of new data sets. At present, about 84 per cent of described species are listed in the Australian Faunal Directory.

The Australian weeds website brings together information on noxious weeds and weeds management at the national level. It links to information and services on the Australian Government and selected state and territory websites.

Resource Library of publications released by Australia’s Chief Scientist. The Chief Scientist provides authoritative and independent science advice on whole-of-Government science and technology priorities, to ensure the best evidence informs Government decision-making.

Australia’s national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information. We tell the real story of Australia, its economy and its people by bringing life and meaning to numbers.

The Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) provides national leadership and support for the discovery, naming and classification of Australia’s living organisms.

The Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) unites biochemists and molecular biologists from around Australia. The Society is devoted to promoting research, new developments and education in biochemistry and molecular biology.

Updated 2018
The National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) (National Statement (2007), and as updated, consists of a series of guidelines made in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992.

Retractions Australia is an online resource dedicated to highlighting data regarding scientific retractions - the removal of published research papers from scientific journals.

Catalogue of Life (COL) is a collaboration bringing together the efforts and contributions of taxonomists and informaticians from around the world. COL aims to address the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species. COL also supports those who need to manage their own taxonomic information and species lists.

ASM Promotes & Advances the Microbial Sciences. With over 30,000 members, including researchers, educators and health professionals, ASM is one of the largest life science societies in the world.

RCSB PDB (RCSB.org) is the US data centre for the global Protein Data Bank (PDB) archive of 3D structure data for large biological molecules (proteins, DNA, and RNA) essential for research and education in fundamental biology, health, energy, and biotechnology.

The Society’s fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.

The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) serves as the premier international membership society for professionals, students and non-profits dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving biodiversity.

Encyclopedia of Life provides global access to knowledge about life on Earth.

Taxonomy lies at the uneasy interface between biology and logic. The processing of information follows somewhat different rules in these two systems, and the role of taxonomy is to reconcile them as tidily as possible. To this end, the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) charged the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) with the task of developing, refining, and maintaining a universal virus taxonomy. The goal of this undertaking is to categorize the multitude of known viruses into a single classification scheme that reflects their evolutionary relationships, i.e. their phylogenies.

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

A citizen science platform for recording and sharing biodiversity observations.
Best for: Distribution data, verified species photos, seasonal trends.

Open database of bird species and taxonomy worldwide.

An authoritative database on fish species biology and ecology.

Species accounts, media, and conservation status for amphibians.

Global database for amphibian and reptile observations.

Marine species database for non-fish organisms.