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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.178 [SLACK_000392] · slack_pm:msg:01832

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Date
2020-09-17 08:14
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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Hah - I'm glad they're so thorough before bugging other scientists... I'm downloading the raw data now - lemme have a quick look

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  1. 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.
  2. 2020-09-17 07:10 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I suspect the data is scattered across repos
  3. 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.
  4. 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.```
  5. 2020-09-17 08:14 Kristian G. Andersen
    Hah - I'm glad they're so thorough before bugging other scientists... I'm downloading the raw data now - lemme have a quick look
  6. 2020-09-17 09:05 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, no concerns really @Andrew Rambaut [shared file(s): RaTG13.jpg]
  7. 2020-09-17 09:06 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Very few unresolved bases (a handful)
  8. 2020-09-17 09:09 Robert F. Garry open
    Good to see - Is there an analysis of the pango data? That seems to be a sticking point as well.
  9. 2020-09-17 09:13 Robert F. Garry open
    "who knows where this will go next" --- not going away anytime soon - too important for the Presidential election -thanks for the rapid science response to Yan. Tucker/Yan now playing the censorship/victim card since Twittersuspended/flagged their accounts. Reminds me of the Grand Wizard - getting his NIH grant suspended was probably the best thing that ever happened to him.

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