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HMMMM - that is interesting.

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2021-02-24 09:02 Robert F. Garry open

@Andrew Rambaut Q957R is interesting - Q957 probably forms a salt bridge with K304. Put another positive charge there make clash and likely "loosens up" the monomer more than a bit. Like Eddies corridor analogy though - variants finding their way down to a common path,
2021-02-24 09:22 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, B.1.526 with eek is definitely rising in New York. This might be real. https://outbreak.info/situation-reports?country=United%20States&division=California[...]1.526&muts=S%3 AE484K&selected=New%20York&selectedType=division
2021-02-24 09:27 Robert F. Garry open

Speaking of the WSJ - they just requested an interview to discuss our Virological post.
2021-02-24 09:27 Andrew Rambaut open

It is weird the V701A reverting in the S477N lineage - maybe the tree is wrong
2021-02-24 09:29 Robert F. Garry

HMMMM - that is interesting.
2021-02-24 09:29 Kristian G. Andersen open

Oh... We have identified a MAJOR issue with Illumina's consensus caller - it's calling reference calls if there are _any_ mismatching reads at a variant site. That might be why
2021-02-24 09:29 Kristian G. Andersen open

If this is from NYC, it's possible they used Illumina's DRAGEN pipeline
2021-02-24 09:29 Kristian G. Andersen open

(I have reached out to them - crickets).
2021-02-24 09:30 Kristian G. Andersen open

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