In this episode we discuss the current status and the promise of the epigenetic landscape within plant sciences. Claude Becker serves as Professor of Genetics at the LMU in Munich and studies the role of epigenetic marks in plant-environment interactions; to understand how and when epigenetic variation arises, if and how it is inherited, and whether it influences plant physiology and phenotype. He is also co-developer of our product MethylScore.

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In this podcast we follow up on the questions we received during our December Webinar titled Innovation in Plant Breeding: Advanced machine learning for predictive plant breeding. If interested, please download the webinar: https://computomics.com/webinar-2020.html or listen to the replay https://seedworld.com/seed-world-innovation-webinar-series-advanced-machine-learning-for-predictive-plant-breeding/

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Detlef Weigel, Computomics co-founder and Managing Director at the MPI for Developmental Biology discusses his scientific career and where he sees scientific discovery headed in the future. 

In this end of the year episode we look back on lessons from 2020 and look forward to 2021.

This episode dives into a discussion on human psychology and dealing with the instability in our world while moving technology forward.

Max from ConstellR discusses the challenges of integrating and homogenizing earth observation data and the need to make it accessible and usable for agricultural purposes. 

Prof. Dr. Albrecht Melchinger provides a primer on maize breeding and how machine learning capabilities can improve accuracy and prediction capability for complex traits. 

This week we talk to Saskia Biskup, the co-founder of CeGaT, a diagnostic company that's moving the field of human health forward. Their microbiome analysis tools utilize MEGAN6 to bring patients improved understanding of what their metagenomics results really mean.

The final episode in our series on Metagenomics analysis concludes with an interview with Computomics Co-Founder and MEGAN6 author Daniel Huson. We discuss how MEGAN came about, what long-reads sequencing has meant to Metagenomics, and the way forward.