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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.286 [SLACK_000500] · slack_pm:msg:02979

Date: 2020-11-30 18:53
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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We fucking can! It's been in the 40s here. And here's a bit of fun about that rubella paper published in Nature the other week...we just sequenced some more fish including an electric ray. Sorry the tree is shit but we just did it. And the rooting in that paper is wrong. [shared file(s): rubella.trimmed.fasta.tree.png]

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2020-11-30 18:34 Edward C. Holmes open

Ha, yes, applies equally. Perhaps China will use that line?
2020-11-30 18:43 Kristian G. Andersen open

They might want to tweak it a little to make it even stronger.
2020-11-30 18:50 Edward C. Holmes open

They are really having a go at Australia at the moment. Soft target and really stupid. They are losing the plot a bit.
2020-11-30 18:51 Kristian G. Andersen open

Well, Aussies are easy targets because they can take the heat - "Fuck it you nitwit - heading to the beach and then it's out for a pint with me mates"
2020-11-30 18:53 Edward C. Holmes

We fucking can! It's been in the 40s here. And here's a bit of fun about that rubella paper published in Nature the other week...we just sequenced some more fish including an electric ray. Sorry the tree is shit but we just did it. And the rooting in that paper is wrong. [shared file(s): rubella.trimmed.fasta.tree.png]
2020-11-30 19:02 Kristian G. Andersen open

Wait, are you telling me that that paper I rejected for Nature but that Nature decided to go ahead with anyway might have rooted their tree incorrectly? I did tell them to be careful with their conclusions...
2020-11-30 19:04 Edward C. Holmes open

I'm telling you exactly that. Pretty crazy that the ray falls between the bat and the other mammalian samples.
2020-11-30 19:05 Edward C. Holmes open

Complete RdRp
2020-11-30 19:06 Kristian G. Andersen open

I don't understand evolution - it's so weird...

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