Join host Phil Ewels in Episode 49 of the Nextflow Podcast as he interviews Dr. Olga Botvinnik, founder and CEO of Seanome. Olga discusses her journey from studying at MIT to founding her non-profit research institute focused on marine genomics.
Discover her groundbreaking work in annotating unknown proteins and her efforts in collaborating with the Earth BioGenome Project.
Olga also shares her experience with the Nextflow and nf-core communities, and her vision for developing tools to aid research in understudied ocean organisms.
Join us as we chat about the vast potential of marine genomics and its applications.
00:00 Podcast Episode 49: Olga Botvinnik / Seanome
00:06 Welcome
01:18 Olga's background
07:30 Colonial tunicates
09:38 Starting Seanome with Arctic clams
11:07 Vision for Seanome
12:46 Earth BioGenome Project
13:46 Animal genomics not metagenomics
14:53 Building nf-core/proteinannotator
19:46 Software engineering in bioinformatics
22:21 nf-core early days
27:46 Bioinformatics Beyoncé
30:50 Seanome future steps
32:10 Final thoughts: Why the ocean
34:19 Goodbyes