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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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

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

Benchmark datasets

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Over the last several years, we have been generating benchmark datasets.

The memories

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I was cleaning out my office and found a flag that was given to me a few years ago. The legendary Peter Gerner-Smidt had become a citizen and had given some ...