Lee Katz

I am a bioinformatician at CDC. In my free time, I try to be a good husband and parent, and in my imaginary free time, I podcast with my co-hosts on the Micro Binfie podcast. All opinions are my own and are not necessarily shared by my employer.

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Erdos Bacon number

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Some friends were joking around online about their Kevin Bacon number. “I bumped into an actor one time who worked with Kevin Bacon.” “I went to high school ...

Adapter trimming

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After sequencing, one of the first steps is to remove adapter sequences. These are most commonly the sequences that are either used to initiate sequencing li...

Pixi basics Permalink

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I wrote a post on the microbifie blog on how to get started with Pixi.

Call for action: bioinformatics conferences

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Every fiscal year, we have to predict where we are going to travel over the whole next year. However, conferences mainly post on their own website, making no...

Hash collision experiment

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I have talked a bit about hashes with MLST but one crucial issue with hashes is whether they have collisions. In other words, if we have two sequences, there...