Podcast: Episode 34

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+title: "Nextflow in materials science: Jakob Zeitler"
+episode: 34
+description: We speak to Jakob from Matterhorn Studio about how they use Nextflow and Seqera Platform in materials science research.
+date: 2024-04-02
+type: podcast
+subtype: Interview
+youtubeid: GzuKTMXUb0
+image: /img/podcast_ep34.png
+tags: nextflow,opensource
+author: Developer advocates
+icon: logo_podcast_channels.jpg
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+In this episode of Channels, we talk to Jakob Zeitler - Head of R&D at Matterhorn Studios.
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+We dive into how they use Nextflow and Seqera Platform for material science research, paving the way for cheaper and more eco-friendly products for the future ⚗️👩🏻‍🔬🔬🌎
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+It may not be bioinformatics, but there's a lot that's in common!
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+Jakob is currently finishing his PhD at UCL, and he started Matterhorn STUDIO in 2022
+to bring machine learning to materials science.
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+We talk about how advances in materials science can bring many benefits to mankind,
+for example better materials to help the fight against climate change.
+However, the current paradigms are too slow, with and average 20 years form inception to market.
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+Matterhorn STUDIO was founded to bring efficient experimentation to materials science,
+using Nextflow to structure ML routines - specifically Bayesian Optimisation.
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+We talk about why Matterhorn STUDIO chose Nextflow to run their computational workloads,
+and how they built on top of the Seqera Platform API to create their tools and abstract
+the complexity of cloud computing away from users. All the time whilst staying true to
+open-source science, with reproducible and portable analysis pipelines.