Episode 49: Finding novel proteins at Seanome, with Olga Botvinnik

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 / Seanome00:06 Welcome01:18 Olga's background07:30 Colonial tunicates09:38 Starting Seanome with Arctic clams11:07 Vision for Seanome12:46 Earth BioGenome Project13:46 Animal genomics not metagenomics14:53 Building nf-core/proteinannotator19:46 Software engineering in bioinformatics22:21 nf-core early days27:46 Bioinformatics Beyoncé30:50 Seanome future steps32:10 Final thoughts: Why the ocean34:19 Goodbyes