Episode 28: Seqera and Nextflow in public health — Interview with Kelsey Florek

Rob Lalonde of Seqera interviews Kelsey Florek, Senior Genomics and Data Scientist at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene. In this interview, Rob and Kelsey discuss how genomic surveillance has changed since the COVID pandemic, and how Seqera Platform and Nextflow pipelines have substantially lowered the barrier to entry for bioinformaticians running workflows in public health labs and in the field. The viralrecon pipeline Kelsey mentioned in the interview can be found at https://nf-co.re/viralrecon

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