Lee Katz

I am the senior bioinformatician in the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch 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.

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Story about Ginger

2 minute read

Ginger passed away early this morning. Samantha had a good obituary for her

List of bioinformatics conferences

16 minute read

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...

Converting a set of VCFs to distances

5 minute read

I think that converting a bunch of VCF files to an alignment is still an artisinal thing. I made this sort of task in the Lyve-SET pipeline back in 2013 and ...

Open source alternatives

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BioNumerics is sunsetting in December 2024. This is an issue especially in the PulseNet community where the network relies on this software to do many things...

MLST with colorid

2 minute read

I am pleasantly surprised by how well ColorID works with MLST. For some background, please see my previous post on cgMLST.