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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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 ...

mstdn.science

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I am using my site to verify me on Mastodon. Nabil and Duncan spun up a Mastodon server at https://mstdn.science a few weeks ago and it has been wildly succe...

GenBank CV

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I was inspired by Andrey Kislyuk’s post about 15 years ago on his personal website where he formatted his personal website to look like a GenBank file. I rec...

NFT of BRCA1

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I’ve been sort of amazed ever since I heard about NFTs from Planet Money and now the New York Times.  Basically you associate a place on the blockchain with ...

Downloading the breadth of SARS-CoV-2

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I was trying to figure out how to download the breadth of all of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and so I started out with the two major repositories: NCBI and GISAID.