Private channel session 1557

10 messages over 1h 7m, 2021-07-06 – 2021-07-06.

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1. 2021-07-06 14:06 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.975
   !channel Got sent this by my deep throat in China. He said "In case I got silenced later on. This is the tree figure based on very partial S gene that I wanted to show you. Hopefully we will get more complete genome later on, will update you". What he didn't say was what animal it was! This is likely part of the gamey tastes project. I'm guessing pangolin but I'm not sure. [shared file(s): Nice_whether.jpg]
2. 2021-07-06 14:09 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.975
   Interesting - I assume the sequence of interest is "temp4"? If so, more distant than RaTG13 to SARS-CoV-2, but definitely interesting.
3. 2021-07-06 14:10 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.975
   Yes, temp4. It's S though and only RaTG13 has been close in S (other than the pangolin RBD). I do wonder if they have the FCS??
4. 2021-07-06 14:11 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.975
   You can see how distant the other Yunnan bat viruses are.
5. 2021-07-06 14:12 Kristian G. Andersen open PDF p.975
   FCS would be exciting....!!!
6. 2021-07-06 14:14 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.975
   I will bring news when I get it.
7. 2021-07-06 14:34 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.975
   Ooo... exciting
8. 2021-07-06 15:13 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.975
   I kind of wish everyone hadn't gone around telling journos about this until we had it out.
9. 2021-07-06 15:13 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.975
   I don't see any reason why we needed to pre-warn journalists
10. 2021-07-06 15:13 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.975
    Me too!