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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.240 [SLACK_000454] · slack_pm:msg:02496

Date: 2020-10-30 14:43
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Intelligence community assessments

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•Dec 25: Patient samples sent to (sequencing) Company A •Dec 26: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 discovered by Company A •Dec 27: Full genome obtained by Company A •Dec 27, 28: Company A report to CDC and hospital in Wuhan •Dec 30: Company B sequence data from another patient •Dec 31: Company B's report (59 reads) "leaked" on social media

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2020-10-30 14:43 Edward C. Holmes open

Here are the sequencing dates that I am pretty bloody certain are correct:
2020-10-30 14:43 Edward C. Holmes

•Dec 25: Patient samples sent to (sequencing) Company A •Dec 26: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 discovered by Company A •Dec 27: Full genome obtained by Company A •Dec 27, 28: Company A report to CDC and hospital in Wuhan •Dec 30: Company B sequence data from another patient •Dec 31: Company B's report (59 reads) "leaked" on social media
2020-10-30 14:43 Edward C. Holmes open

I think company B is the BGI.
2020-10-30 14:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought. There's no question these four runs were registered on 12/10 though - which iskinda peculiar.
2020-10-30 14:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

I thought maybe BGI would have made a bunch of registrations (because I assume they're sequencing from patients frequently), but that wasn't really the case - as far as I can see, only these four ones.
2020-10-30 14:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

E.g., this one: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/samples/SAMEA6507890

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