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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.135-136 [SLACK_000349] · slack_pm:msg:01386

Page text: p.135, p.136 · original PDF

Date: 2020-08-14 15:37
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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I will be criticising NextStrain if so. I'm just checking with the Melbourne people now.

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2020-08-14 14:33 Edward C. Holmes open

Bloody Trevor.
2020-08-14 14:51 Andrew Rambaut open

The issue here is that this is NextStrain's 'Oceania' site. This has a focus on Oceania genomes and down-samples the rest of the world which means it will over sample Australia.
2020-08-14 14:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

@Eddie Holmes And they don't check to see if these genomes are shared outside Australia? For that types of question, one really needs to look outside the sandbox... (this reminds my of the ever-occurring issue of people taking short reads and blasting them against viral databases to conclude that they have viruses in their samples... Only to realize later that they are human reads).
2020-08-14 15:36 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, that's my guess.
2020-08-14 15:37 Edward C. Holmes

I will be criticising NextStrain if so. I'm just checking with the Melbourne people now.
2020-08-14 15:44 Edward C. Holmes open

@Eddie Holmes Pretty incompetent analysis. I'm going to enjoy this.
2020-08-14 15:45 Andrew Rambaut open

@Eddie Holmes Does anyone actually pay attention to these 'sit reps'?
2020-08-14 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open

@Eddie Holmes No idea. But the hotel quarantine thing is huge in Australia. There's a formal inquiry at the moment and heads will roll.
2020-08-14 15:47 Andrew Rambaut open

@Eddie Holmes My worry is that these young, talented scientists have squandered a huge opportunity to do great science and help understand the pandemic and instead do silly ephemeral shite like this.

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