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Private channel session 1323

10 messages over 2h 50m, 2021-05-04 – 2021-05-04.

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  1. 2021-05-04 10:52 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.747
    Interesting A lineage franken variant we just picked up in Jordan - travel associated case from Sudan. Interesting evolutionary stuff going on on the African continent... [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-04 at 10.51.46.png]
  2. 2021-05-04 11:26 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.747
    I think we have seen that one in the UK with links to Egypt
  3. 2021-05-04 11:27 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.747
    I think there is a long hidden history which accounts for most of the ORF1ab changes
  4. 2021-05-04 11:40 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.748
    Need to check this against the Tanzania one - quite interesting
  5. 2021-05-04 12:25 Robert F. Garry open PDF p.748
    "Interesting evolutionary stuff going on on the African continent..." Yes indeed - "interesting evolutionary stuff," "long hidden history," low case loads in SubSaharan Africa, possible large pool of pre-existing (cross-reactive) immunity. Definitely need to sort out what is going on in Africa....
  6. 2021-05-04 13:19 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.748
    And breathe. It's all going to be ok - the cladists have nailed it: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cla.12454
  7. 2021-05-04 13:24 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.748
    Total techno babble. Love it. I'm convinced. "total evidence analysis under the parsimony optimality criterion". Total Evidence Analysis - I need toremember that one for a future paper.
  8. 2021-05-04 13:33 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.748
    Daniel Janies has spent years trying to do genomic epi only using parsimony and only publishing in Cladisics. It is aweird cult.
  9. 2021-05-04 13:41 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.748
    Must be comforting though: nothing is true until it is demonstrated with cladistics. Means you can ignore 99.99% ofother papers.
  10. 2021-05-04 13:43 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.748
    Ignoring 99.99% of papers might not be a bad strategy...