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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.578 [SLACK_000792] · slack_pm:msg:06034

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Date
2021-03-08 18:55
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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No shit. ALL these viruses plus RmYN01 and RnYN02 were sampled in a 1100 hectare botanical garden. No caves nor miners.

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  1. 2021-03-08 18:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    Weifeng's paper is now out on bioRxiv Still waiting on accession numbers though
  2. 2021-03-08 18:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    Very slow for some reason
  3. 2021-03-08 18:53 Kristian G. Andersen open
    "the phylogenetic and genomic diversity of these viruses has likely been underestimated" - no shit :wink:
  4. 2021-03-08 18:55 Edward C. Holmes
    No shit. ALL these viruses plus RmYN01 and RnYN02 were sampled in a 1100 hectare botanical garden. No caves nor miners.
  5. 2021-03-08 18:56 Edward C. Holmes open
    So, chances of finding bat zero...
  6. 2021-03-08 18:56 Kristian G. Andersen open
    So freaky - plus, all this recombination - it's like a random number generator.
  7. 2021-03-08 18:57 Edward C. Holmes open
    It is! Took me a while to get it all planned:rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:
  8. 2021-03-08 18:58 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah man - difficult to properly fake all those novel genomes. Great job man. I assume CCP pays 10 grand per fake genome?

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