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1. 2020-10-20 19:09 Edward C. Holmes open
   Bloody good timing. Not.
2. 2020-10-20 19:09 Edward C. Holmes open
   Only appears to be a few base changes by the look of it.
3. 2020-10-20 19:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
   They're writing about an article about a sequence being updated on Genbank? Fuck me. There is NO significance to this and it's not worth commenting on - ANYBODY who does this type of work knows that sequences get updated every now and again, especially when the sequences are (a) important and (b) had a few low-coverage regions that might have had assembly errors. This changes nothing - and as you say, only a handful of completely insignificant changes. This is 100% business as usual - move on.
4. 2020-10-20 19:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
   FWIW, the new sequences 100% match the consensus sequence I generated and shared on Virological, which might have been a better assembly than their own. It's possible that they just downloaded my bam files (which I made available on Google Cloud) and then they called the consensus from those. Again, all totally standard.
5. 2020-10-20 19:09 Edward C. Holmes
   Yes, that's what I just told him. The tinfoil hats have got their diapers in a twist over it.
6. 2020-10-20 19:31 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Of course they have. Sooooooooo mysterious [unless you actually know how to do this type of work]
7. 2020-10-20 19:32 Edward C. Holmes open
   Next, Inspector Clouseau will probably notice it's your bam files and then a whole new conspiracy will start....
8. 2020-10-20 19:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Yup. Sorry - I faked those too. :man_in_business_suit_levitating:
9. 2020-10-20 19:34 Edward C. Holmes open
   Such a web of lies we have woven.

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