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Mar 2024
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Biotech Special: Scientific Computing Pi...

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About this episode

NextFlow is a tool for managing scientific computation workflows. It’s increasingly popular for bioinformatics, computational biology, and other life science applications.

Evan Floden is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seqera Labs which develops NextFlow. He joins the show today to talk about his background as a scientist and engineer, the modular design of NextFlow pipelines, the unique challenges of genomic sequence data formats, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

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