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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.558 [SLACK_000772] · slack_pm:msg:05818

Date: 2021-03-01 14:36
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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```The 'phylogenetic' tools used to track these variants were largely developed by evolutionary biologists to study the lineage of organisms. They were designed to construct phylogenetic trees that can ask, for example, whether flightevolved twice in mammals, or whether two large groups of bats began as one that then diverged.Now, co-opted to track a pandemic, the leaves of the phylogenetic tree represent SARS-CoV-2 sequences taken from individuals, and the tree grows with the number of cases ```Now co-opted?

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2021-03-01 14:33 Kristian G. Andersen open

"Christmas break was lost to crunching further sequences and briefing journalists".
2021-03-01 14:33 Kristian G. Andersen open

So, so, so sorry for her.
2021-03-01 14:35 Andrew Rambaut open

I am so livid. But I can't say anything as Emma is a former student. Someone needs to call this out. I can't believe the limited set of citations too - Franky Bollocks'' paper? FFS.
2021-03-01 14:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah - this really should be called out. Some of the worst I have read. What the heck went wrong here? Or are these people just so full of themselves by now that this seems ok?
2021-03-01 14:36 Andrew Rambaut

```The 'phylogenetic' tools used to track these variants were largely developed by evolutionary biologists to study the lineage of organisms. They were designed to construct phylogenetic trees that can ask, for example, whether flightevolved twice in mammals, or whether two large groups of bats began as one that then diverged.Now, co-opted to track a pandemic, the leaves of the phylogenetic tree represent SARS-CoV-2 sequences taken from individuals, and the tree grows with the number of cases ```Now co-opted?
2021-03-01 14:37 Kristian G. Andersen open

Haha - "whether flight evolved twice in mammals"
2021-03-01 14:37 Edward C. Holmes open

Here are some of my emails: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 9.36.14 am.png]
2021-03-01 14:37 Kristian G. Andersen open

The best example they could come up with.
2021-03-01 14:38 Edward C. Holmes open

And another. This is like a freedom of information act request: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-02 at 9.38.02am.png]

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