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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.225 [SLACK_000439] · slack_pm:msg:02325

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Date
2020-10-20 19:32
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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Next, Inspector Clouseau will probably notice it's your bam files and then a whole new conspiracy will start....

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 2020-10-20 19:09 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, that's what I just told him. The tinfoil hats have got their diapers in a twist over it.
  4. 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]
  5. 2020-10-20 19:32 Edward C. Holmes
    Next, Inspector Clouseau will probably notice it's your bam files and then a whole new conspiracy will start....
  6. 2020-10-20 19:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yup. Sorry - I faked those too. :man_in_business_suit_levitating:
  7. 2020-10-20 19:34 Edward C. Holmes open
    Such a web of lies we have woven.
  8. 2020-10-20 19:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Clever, really. All for the fat checks we're receiving from the CCP.
  9. 2020-10-20 20:18 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Bloody hell - PREDICT made it into Biden's pandemic plan.... (which is very good otherwise): https://joebiden.com/covid19/

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