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2026

Sep 17Episode 155: Ancient problems require ancient solutions - part 1
Aug 20Episode 154: Boston women in bioinformatics
Jul 23Episode 153: Seebot
Apr 09Episode 152: Deacon part 2
Mar 26Episode 151: Deacon part 1
Mar 12Episode 150: Genomicx
Feb 09Episode 149: Bridging AI & Biosciences

2025

Nov 13Episode 148: NextFlow debate 3
Oct 30Episode 147: NextFlow debate 2
Oct 16Episode 146: NextFlow debate 1
Sep 25Episode 145: Micro binfie Pathoplexus part 2
Sep 11Episode 144: Micro binfie Pathoplexus part 1
Aug 28Episode 143: Where we catch up on our professional lives
Aug 07Episode 142: Genomeqc
Jul 03Episode 140: Exploring Clinical Metagenomics
Jun 19Episode 139: Lassa virus genomics
Jan 16Episode 138: Decoding Tetracycline Resistance in MRSA
Jan 02Episode 137: Contagion part 2

2024

Dec 19Episode 135: Assembling ATCC bacterial strains
Dec 18Episode 141: Hackathon panel
Dec 16Episode 136: Contagion part 1
Dec 05Episode 133: The Role of Bioinformatics in Public Health and Disease Outbreaks
Dec 05Episode 134: Diving into MRSA, Genomics, and Public Health
Nov 21Episode 132: Unlocking the Secrets of Antimicrobial Resistance in Metagenomes
Nov 07Episode 131: Bioinformatics Evolution: Torsten Seemann on Snippy, Open-Source Support, and Global Genomics
Oct 25Episode 130: Exploring Genomic Innovation and Machine Learning in Public Health
Oct 11Episode 129: Genomics on the Frontier: Bactopia, Bioinformatics, and Pathogen Surveillance with Robert Petit
Sep 19Episode 128: Haiti cholera outbreak with Christine Lee and Cynney Walters
Sep 05Episode 127: Minimum spanning trees
Aug 22Episode 126: Tree viz
Jun 06Episode 125: Kostas Konstantinidis returns to talk to us about ANI and metagenomics
May 23Episode 124: Kostas Konstantinidis talks to us about ANI and metagenomics
Mar 21Episode 123: The Revolution of Hash Databases in cgMLST
Mar 09Episode 122: GAMBIT: Genomic Approximation Method for Bacterial Identification and Tracking
Feb 01Episode 121: K-mers, Sourmash, and Open Source Software - More Conversations with Titus Brown
Jan 18Episode 120: Scaling Metagenomic Search with Sourmash - Conversations with Titus Brown
Jan 04Episode 119: The Challenges of Microbial Taxonomy - Conversations with Titus Brown

2023

Dec 21Episode 118: Real bioinformaticians react to Jurassic Park
Dec 07Episode 117: From Math to Metagenomics - Titus Brown on Career Journeys and Software Solutions
Nov 23Episode 116: AI Authorship and Ethics in Academic Publishing for Genomics
Nov 09Episode 115: Write-the: speeding up software development for bioinformatics
Nov 04Episode 114: Write-the: Automating Code Documentation ChatGPT
Sep 18Episode 113: Global Microbial Identifier conference with Ruth Timme
Sep 17Episode 112: Global Microbial Identifier conference with Will Hsiao
Sep 16Episode 111: Global Microbial Identifier with Finlay Maguire and Emma Griffiths
Jul 06Episode 110: ChatGPT: The Bioinformatics Calculator
Jun 22Episode 109: AI Unleashed: Navigating the Opportunities and Challenges of AI in Microbial Bioinformatics
Jun 08Encore: What language should I learn?
May 25Episode 108: SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data
May 11Episode 107: Systematics and naming of prokaryotes in the era of sequencing
Apr 27Episode 106: Why on earth would you do a PostDoc?
Apr 20Episode 105: Mobile genetic elements panel discussion
Apr 06Episode 104: The Kraken software suite
Mar 23Episode 103: Release the Kraken
Mar 09Episode 102: Early days of MLST
Feb 23Episode 101: One Health with Natacha Couto and Ed Feil
Feb 09Episode 100: The 100th episode
Jan 26Episode 99: Stories from the frontlines of bioinformatics
Jan 12Episode 98: Nomadic bioinformatics with Frank

2022

Dec 29Episode 97: Advances in sequencing technologies
Dec 22Episode 96: IMMEM XIII and ASM NGS conference roundup
Dec 08Episode 95: Lost in Translation with Torsten Seemann
Nov 17Episode 94: The great scientific Mastodon migration
Nov 10Episode 93: Roary Troubleshooting And Issues
Oct 27Episode 92: Avoid dependency hell and get up and running fast
Oct 13Episode 91: What language should I learn?
Sep 29Episode 90: Public health bioinformatics on the cloud with WDL + Terra.bio
Sep 15Episode 89: What do we do with WDL?
Aug 04Episode 88: Sepia directors cut
Jul 21Episode 87: Nextstrain, SARSCOV2 and dealing with a data deluge
Jul 07Episode 86: What's next for nextstrain?
Jun 23Episode 85: Breaking the dogma with bioinformatics
Jun 09Episode 84: Bioinformatics in the noughties with Mark Pallen
May 26Episode 83: A short journey into mobile genetic elements
May 12Episode 82: Bioinformatics moments before the millennium
Apr 29Episode 81: The people behind the benchmark datasets for SARS-CoV-2
Apr 28Episode 80: Benchmark datasets for SARS-CoV-2
Apr 14Episode 79: StaPH-B: Stable containers for public health bioinformatics
Mar 31Episode 78: StaPH-B: state public health bioinformatics
Mar 17Episode 77: Genomics for a new era
Mar 03Episode 76: What are the major challenges for getting AMR genomics into the clinic?
Feb 03Episode 74: SEPIA With Henk - Soup Or Salad Yes!
Jan 20Episode 73: Bactopia and using workflow managers in bioinformatics part 2
Jan 06Episode 72: Bactopia and using workflow managers in bioinformatics part 1

2021

Dec 17Episode 71: Bacterial taxonomy: Into the unknown, SeqCode, naming uncultured multitudes and renaming of phyla
Dec 17Episode 70: Bacterial Taxonomy: the grand vista is ahead of us
Dec 16Episode 69: Background to bacterial taxonomy
Dec 09Episode 68: Bacterial Taxonomy: what is a species, what is a strain? part 2
Nov 25Episode 67: Bacterial Taxonomy: what is a species, what is a strain?
Nov 18Episode 66: Scholarly Communications for Bioinformaticians
Nov 02Episode 75: How to review a bioinformatics paper in 10 days or less
Oct 28Episode 65: Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Oct 14Episode 64: Mycobacterium tuberculosis: the forgotten pandemic
Sep 30Episode 63: A dive into Campylobacter genomics
Sep 16Episode 62: Campylobacter: the fussy little pathogen
Sep 02Episode 61: Non FUNGIble tokens: you too can own BRCA1
Jul 01Encore of episode 6: What software not to write
Jun 17Episode 60: Whats in a name: Salmonella and E. Coli
Jun 03Episode 59: Microbe Moment Micro Binfie
May 21Episode 58: StaPH-B careers with Curtis Kapsak and Kevin Libuit
May 07Episode 57: StaPH-B - Docker containers for Public Health bioinformatics Part 1
Apr 21Episode 56: SARS-CoV-2 And Sequencing Spike With Sanger Sequencing part 2
Apr 08Episode 55: SARS-CoV-2 And Sequencing Spike With Sanger Sequencing - Welcome To 1995
Apr 01Episode 54: SARS-CoV-2 In Canada and addressing data sharing and privacy
Mar 25Episode 53: SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Canada with CANCOGEN
Mar 18Episode 52: SARS-CoV-2 sequencing in Denmark with Mads Albertsen
Mar 11Episode 51: SARSCOV2 Round-up 3 and updates from Denmark
Feb 25Episode 50: Atypical invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella in The Gambia
Feb 22Episode 49: SARS-CoV-2 Tools and resources update
Feb 20Episode 48: SARS-CoV-2 More Variants of Concern and updates from Africa
Feb 08Episode 46: SARS-CoV-2 genomics resources
Feb 08Episode 47: SARS-CoV-2 Rapid roundup and questions answered
Feb 04Episode 45: Software deep dive: Enterobase
Jan 22Episode 44: How to sequence SARS-CoV-2 using the ARTIC protocol with Joshua Quick
Jan 21Episode 43: Why use genomics in an epidemic? with Sam Sheppard
Jan 20Episode 42: Overcoming barriers to SARS-CoV-2 data analysis
Jan 19Episode 41: SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenomics questions answered
Jan 18Episode 40: A crash course in SARS-CoV-2 bioinformatics
Jan 16Episode 39: Explaining the naming of SARS-CoV-2 new variants
Jan 07Episode 38: Ontologies - effective data sharing

2020

Dec 24Episode 37: Ontologies - the secret sauce of bioinformatics
Dec 10Episode 36: Roary the pangenome pipeline
Nov 26Episode 35: The Wandering Bioinformatician
Nov 12Episode 34: Moving from wet to dry with Phil Ashton
Oct 29Episode 33: The untrained monkey
Oct 15Episode 32: Looking behind Majora's Mask and nation wide tracking of SARS-CoV-2 genomics
Oct 01Episode 31: Large scale sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes from one region
Sep 17Episode 30: How we made the podcast on our 1st birthday
Sep 10Episode 29: Mashtree software deep dive
Aug 27Episode 28: BRIG the BLAST Ring Image Generator
Aug 13Episode 26: SARS-CoV-2 contextual data specification for open genomic epidemiology
Aug 13Episode 27: SNP-sites: rapid efficient extraction of SNPs from multi-FASTA alignments
Jul 30Episode 25: Sustainable bioinformatics software
Jul 16Episode 24: Experimental projects lead to experimental software
Jul 02Episode 23: CoronaHiT: large scale multiplexing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes on Nanopore
Jun 25Episode 22: Assembly after party
Jun 16Episode 21: Setting up coronavirus sequencing for real-time public health surveillance
Jun 11Episode 20: Assembly read healing
May 28Episode 19: Microbinfies assemble
May 14Episode 18: Panel - Has Nanopore rendered onsite Illumina obsolete?
Apr 30Episode 17: Bayesian magic in practice
Apr 16Episode 16: The theory behind Bayesian Magic
Apr 02Episode 15: Bioinformatics war stories
Mar 19Episode 14: La resistance lives on: The AMR deep dive
Mar 05Episode 13: Questions not to ask
Feb 20Episode 12: Phylogenetics with the arborists part 2
Feb 06Episode 11: Phylogenetics with the arborists part 1
Jan 23Episode 10: History of file formats
Jan 09Episode 9: Nobel prize or contamination

2019

Dec 26Episode 8: Looking back at 2019
Dec 12Episode 7: Wham, BAM, thank you SAM.
Nov 28Episode 6: Writing good bioinformatics software with Torsten Seemann
Nov 14Episode 5: History of Genotyping - Decentralised Future
Oct 31Episode 4: History of Genotyping - The early years
Oct 17Episode 3: FASTQ - all your bases are belong to us
Oct 03Episode 2: What bioinformatics software not to write part 2
Sep 19Episode 1: What bioinformatics software not to write part 1
Sep 17Episode 0: Trailer

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