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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We can make this beautiful and searchable

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You might have seen this message on GitHub for a tab separated file.

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 ...

How to call whole genome MLST on the command line

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I have been asked in many different contexts how to call alleles on the command line. In August 2022, I gave an internal workshop on how to call alleles on t...

How to be a good citizen on Linux

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This is a short tutorial on how to be a good citizen in a shared Linux environment. At my own institution, there are many users per computer and we all have ...