In this episode of Channels, we talk to Jakob Zeitler - Head of R&D at Matterhorn Studios.

We dive into how they use Nextflow and Seqera Platform for materials science research, paving the way for cheaper and more eco-friendly products for the future ⚗️ 👩🏻‍🔬 🔬 🌎

Jakob is currently finishing his PhD at UCL, and he started Matterhorn STUDIO in 2022 to bring machine learning to materials science.

You might remember Jakob’s name from an excellent talk that he gave at the 2022 Nextflow Summit in Barcelona. You can watch that video on YouTube.

Join to hear about how advances in materials science can bring many benefits to mankind, for example better materials to help the fight against climate change. Jakob tells us about how the current paradigms are too slow, with and average 20 years from inception to market.

Matterhorn STUDIO was founded to bring efficient experimentation to materials science, using Nextflow to structure ML routines - specifically Bayesian Optimisation.

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.