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Date
2020-11-21 14:40
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
Proximal Origin paper

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Yuri Deigin and the powers of BLAST as an alignment tool. I finally blocked him as it was getting so tedious. Proximal Origins 2....I still wonder if we need to wait for more new data?

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  1. 2020-11-21 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, great doc Bob. Get it out. Kristian and I have been dealing with some alignment trolls this morning.
  2. 2020-11-21 14:38 Andrew Rambaut open
    Alignment trolls? Who'd have thought we would ever have such things.
  3. 2020-11-21 14:40 Edward C. Holmes
    Yuri Deigin and the powers of BLAST as an alignment tool. I finally blocked him as it was getting so tedious. Proximal Origins 2....I still wonder if we need to wait for more new data?
  4. 2020-11-21 14:43 Andrew Rambaut open
    Quite possibly need more to hang it on. But it might be good to bash out some ideas and see where we are.
  5. 2020-11-21 14:45 Edward C. Holmes open
    Don't disagree that with. I would certainly like to take the opportunity to respond to some of the nonsense written about the pangolin viruses. I'll check with Tommy where we are on this.
  6. 2020-11-21 14:47 Andrew Rambaut open
    Also the idea that RaTG13 is a 'progenitor'.
  7. 2020-11-21 14:49 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes! That underpins 99% of the conspiracy stuff. So dumb. And how you end up with a pangolin-like RBD with a RaTG13 as a progenitor?

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