How Supercomputing is Powering the Fight Against Superbugs

Project Leader: Bhavya Papudeshi and Robert A Edwards

Antibiotic-resistant infections are a growing global health threat—but researchers are fighting back with cutting-edge digital tools. In this video, Dr Michael Roach explains how Sphae, a powerful genomic toolkit, is helping scientists find new bacteriophage therapies when antibiotics fail.

Partner Institution: Flinders University, The University of Adelaide, San Diego State University System: Setonix Areas of science: Bioinformatics

Developed by experts at Flinders University, The University of Adelaide, and San Diego State University. Sphae is made possible through Australia’s NCRIS research infrastructure, including Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Nectar Cloud. This is just one example of how NCRIS is transforming health and saving lives.

Congratulations to the incredible research team: Bhavya Papudeshi , Michael Roach, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, George Bouras, Susanna (Susie) Grigson , Dr Sarah Giles , Clarice Harker , Abbey Hutton , Anita Tarasenko, Laura Inglis, Alejandro Vega, Cole Souza , Lance B. , Hamza Hajama, Ana Cobián, Ph.D. Güemes, Anca Segall , Elizabeth Dinsdale, and Rob Edwards.