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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.55 [SLACK_000269] · slack_pm:msg:00548

Date: 2020-06-04 17:26
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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One has to wonder how much noise there is in the dataset by now - between sequencing (including amplicon and RT) errors and contaminants. Probably ~10% of genomes are wrong.

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2020-06-04 17:25 Andrew Rambaut open

We excluded them because we thought they were flawed. Some of the arguments are based on the fact there are no intermediates with only one of the two SNPs. But they are still there and of course the reviewers have pointed itout.
2020-06-04 17:25 Andrew Rambaut open

Anyway - not my problem (Mike's problem).
2020-06-04 17:26 Kristian G. Andersen open

It's amazing what a couple of SNPs can do :wink:
2020-06-04 17:26 Andrew Rambaut open

So what does Trevor think about the new proof of lab origins paper? He going to come out supporting it? Sure wayto hit the 1m followers.
2020-06-04 17:26 Kristian G. Andersen

One has to wonder how much noise there is in the dataset by now - between sequencing (including amplicon and RT) errors and contaminants. Probably ~10% of genomes are wrong.
2020-06-04 17:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

Haha, Trevor was pretty shocked by how terrible the paper was - but yeah, he should come out and rebuff us to getto a cool million.

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