In January 2020, microbiologists and bioinformaticians from West Asia, West Africa and from the UK participated in an MRC CLIMB workshop on “Establishing Sequencing and Bioinformatics Capacity in Challenging Environments”. A report of the workshop is available on the CLIMB website.
The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to discuss the opportunities offered by the current sequencing landscape, from the cheap outsourced Illumina sequencing and to the improved accuracy of long-read sequencing.
The panel discussion is now a Microbinfie podcast, available also on Soundcloud, Spotify and iTunes.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/micro-binfie-podcast/id1479852809