A casual conversational podcast about the non-scientific parts of life in the biotech industry, this show contains conversations about topics including career paths, side hustles, and whatever is going on in the field right now. Hosted by Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil, this show includes a mix of interviews with guests doing interesting things in this space, answering listener questions, and otherwise just talking about topics we think are interesting, all while avoiding the actual science as much as possible.
We're taking the conversations we might have at a conference cocktail hour and bringing them to you on your walk, drive, or while you do dishes.
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A casual conversational podcast about the non-scientific parts of life in the biotech industry, this show contains conversations about topics including career paths, side hustles, and whatever is going on in the field right now. Hosted by Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil, this show includes a mix of interviews with guests doing interesting things in this space, answering listener questions, and otherwise just talking about topics we think are interesting, all while avoiding the actual science as much as possible.
We're taking the conversations we might have at a conference cocktail hour and bringing them to you on your walk, drive, or while you do dishes.
Academic software has a bad reputation for being poorly maintained. We discuss our experiences maintaining our own bioinformatics tools and the systemic issues that influence the quality of academic software.
Topics
* Lessons we've learned from maintaining our 8+ year old tools: Ginkgo, Assemblytics, SplitThreader, Ribbon.
* Discussing career implications and systemic incentives of maintaining academic software.
* How we build bioinformatics web apps today versus when we first started out.
* Supporting users when you're not even in that field anymore.
* Lots of embarrassing stories of bad software engineering in bioinformatics tools.
Join the discussion in the comments on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eyd7Cb7ueNg
* For academics, do any other metrics get considered for your tools other than citations?
* How do you cite tools you used that you didn't mention in the methods, e.g. samtools, parallel, IGV.
* Do any programs match up volunteer experienced software engineers with scientists writing software?
Where to find us online:
https://omgenomics.com
OMGenomics Podcast
A casual conversational podcast about the non-scientific parts of life in the biotech industry, this show contains conversations about topics including career paths, side hustles, and whatever is going on in the field right now. Hosted by Maria Nattestad and Robert Aboukhalil, this show includes a mix of interviews with guests doing interesting things in this space, answering listener questions, and otherwise just talking about topics we think are interesting, all while avoiding the actual science as much as possible.
We're taking the conversations we might have at a conference cocktail hour and bringing them to you on your walk, drive, or while you do dishes.
