Lee Katz
lskatz.github.io
Lee Katz
@lskatz.github.io
(A central database such as NCBI Pathogens certainly helps though!)

Reminding the world about Mashpit 🤘 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
Mashpit: sketching out genomic epidemiology
Xu et al., (2024). Mashpit: sketching out genomic epidemiology. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(104), 7306, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07306
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November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I strongly believe in PulseNet for genomic epidemiology, but if industry wants a semi anonymous genomic epidemiology platform (but less effective than PulseNet), we developed one at UGA. It fits on a raspberry pi and lets partners share encoded genomes without a central database.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What was the actual legal advice? I love that you thought ahead for that.
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Lee Katz
We are a two fed family, so no income for 40 days. I am incandescent with rage about the Dems caving.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This was the result of a discussion where someone asked if there was a tool out there that can show the first X bases of a fastq file. Seqkit was the first out the gate which you can see here: github.com/shenwei356/s...
a function equivalent to head but for FASTX bases rather than lines/bytes (head) or records (seqkit head)? · Issue #548 · shenwei356/seqkit
from @bede Does anyone know of an existing—preferably packaged—equivalent to head but for FASTX bases rather than lines/bytes (head) or records (seqkit head)? I mean the base aware equivalent of un...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm also producing some benchmarks shown here. Fasten isn't the fastest in every instance, but I am proud to show where it ranks among similar tools. These benchmarks are being produced with every `git push`. github.com/lskatz/faste...
October 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reposted by Lee Katz
The loss of an IRB at CDC would be catastrophic. CDC does quite a lot of research, and protecting people and their data is important.
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Parts two and three will be released in the weeks to come.
October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Oh damn I was just talking about doing this for bioinformatics in government on my podcast but I stopped because I don't think I have the pull. @carlzimmer.com 's is going to be incredible.
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM