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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.177 [SLACK_000391] · slack_pm:msg:01829

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Date
2020-09-17 07:10
Type
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recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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I suspect the data is scattered across repos

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  1. 2020-09-17 06:44 Andrew Rambaut open
    (I just don't know enough about sequencing bioinformatics and genome assembly to look at this).
  2. 2020-09-17 06:57 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I might take a look at the sequence data - overall, I have no concerns though given that this is how sequencing oflow-coverage genomes often occurs. Patchwork....
  3. 2020-09-17 07:01 Andrew Rambaut open
    I guess the question is has there been any 'imputation'? From the above it would seem they can't even get the consensus when they map to the actual consensus?
  4. 2020-09-17 07:03 Andrew Rambaut open
    It would also matter which bits are low coverage. I would prefer to move on but it would be good to be armed with the knowledge - who knows where this will go next.
  5. 2020-09-17 07:10 Kristian G. Andersen
    I suspect the data is scattered across repos
  6. 2020-09-17 08:07 Robert F. Garry open
    I agree with Andrew that the main point is that our analysis would not have changed much at all without RaTG13. The pangolin CoVs (that Alina seems focused on) and other BtCoVs were sufficient for the Proximal Origins analysis. I do recall a PR that talked of a 99% CoV that unfortunately never came.
  7. 2020-09-17 08:13 Andrew Rambaut open
    > Update from Vegard: ```Quick update: We were in the end able to obtain a decent assembly of RaTG13. The description of their approachis lacking to say the least, but the genome seems legit enough, and seems extremely unlikely to involve any sort offraud.We'll post a little commenn on virological, as there might be others looking into the same question.```
  8. 2020-09-17 08:14 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Hah - I'm glad they're so thorough before bugging other scientists... I'm downloading the raw data now - lemme have a quick look
  9. 2020-09-17 09:05 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, no concerns really @Andrew Rambaut [shared file(s): RaTG13.jpg]

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