Lee Organick

@LOrganick

PhD student at University of Washington. Computer scientist, biologist, thru-hiker among other things.

Seattle, WA
Joined March 2017

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  1. Jan 30

    Our paper Probing the Physical Limits of Reliable DNA Data Retrieval is out, along with a Behind the Paper piece I wrote to go with it! Many thanks to , , , , Siena, Xiaomeng, and more in !

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    I have a favor to ask. For 20+ years I've been working on a dream: to make all science funded by US taxpayers freely available to all. We are on the verge of achieving this. But we need to show that people care. So please, if you can, sign this letter:

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  3. Jan 10

    "Graduate school takes a lot of work and skill, but it doesn’t exercise all the muscles of your brain, body, or spirit. Sometimes it’s OK—even necessary—to find other, decidedly unscientific, ways to fill your cup." This. Great article, !

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    Google and Amazon are now in the oil business: "Computer algorithms that perpetually improve themselves can automate the discovery of new reserves and streamline fossil fuel extraction — a big boost for companies that compete with wind and solar."

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    Jan 2

    Illumina and Pacific Biosciences Announce Termination of Merger Agreement | Seeking Alpha

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  6. 13 Nov 2019

    "Humans, less accepting of live dissections, have been harder to study." -Towards Circadian Computing: “Early to Bed and Early to Rise” Makes Some of Us Unhealthy and Sleep Deprived Snappy title, funny quips...well done, authors. I aspire to write this well one day.

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  7. 29 Oct 2019

    It’s been wild watching this project develop.

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  8. 1 Oct 2019

    "...when reviewed holistically with all other admissions components..." reads a lot like the back of those cereal boxes that claim the cereal is "part of a healthy breakfast" but the first ingredient is sugar and the rest of the breakfast is implied to be fruit and veggies. 🤨

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  9. 20 Aug 2019

    Me: *Doing lit search on DNA project when a paper pops up talking about RF-DNA.* Me: Ooh what's this new RF thing? Reverse something? Paper: Radio Frequency-Distinct Native Attributes (RF-DNA) is a technique on USB devices to discriminate btw regular & malicious USBs. Me:

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    20 Aug 2019

    Excited to share our notebook curriculum for learning visualization! Visual encoding, data transformation, interaction, maps, & more! Into Python? Here's Altair + Jupyter: Prefer JavaScript? See Vega-Lite + :

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    9 Aug 2019

    So well said! I would just add: express gratitude to the people that helped you, and then pass the help forward.

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    I’m on the hunt to commission a fresh batch of feature stories for Nature. DM/email with pitches or queries about what we’re looking for!

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  13. 17 Jul 2019

    MRW sends out an email warning us a product we use extensively is going obsolete, only to read the documentation and realize they're just changing the product number and making no actual changes to the product.

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    2 Jul 2019

    I'll likely be moving soon, and I got really tired of typing every address into to find out the commutes lengths, so I built a tool () to make it quicker/easier 😀 It even does a grid search to find the happy intersection of all your commutes!

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  15. 3 Jul 2019

    More great work by great people in our lab :)

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    18 Jun 2019

    The Molecular Information Systems Lab () is looking for a postdoc to work on the ML side of our DNA data storage, DNA-based search, and molecular design for synbio/diagnostics. Please apply below or help spread the word! 🙏

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    22 May 2019

    I’m proud to announce that (a project my team & I have poured our hearts into for 2 yrs) has 200K+ figures by 95K+ scientists 👨🏽‍🔬👩‍🔬! We built this so you could stop struggling to make figures in PPT 🔬 Also, the base version is free, forever 💜

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  18. 30 May 2019

    Today I learned qualifying exams are so much better when you have friends who make cheer signs in the audience. , , I'm loving the community here :)

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  19. 29 May 2019

    Shout out to colorbrewer and other online tools that will help you get better color palettes. Data visualization is important!

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    The people at : 🧪 Make up 10% of UW's internet traffic by themselves 🧪 Have pieces of equipment named after Top Gun characters and Taylor Swift 🧪 Are trying to find a lifelong flu vaccine 🧪 Just got $45 million from

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