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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.585 [SLACK_000799] · slack_pm:msg:06115

Date: 2021-03-10 14:56
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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That's what I thought - and yeah, recombination is absolutely no surprise to anybody who's been following this virus.I can assure you Bette will make full use of being wrongly right, though....

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2021-03-10 14:37 Andrew Rambaut open

Was just looking for intermediates of B.1.1.7 - i.e., perhaps involved in the genesis events. Came across a bunch with some of the mutations but not all. The best ones were some that had multiple genomes so were clearlytransmitting - but the cool thing is they were sequenced in different labs so no lab funny business. Probably loads more but these are the low hanging fruit (about 5-6 sets)
2021-03-10 14:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

Interesting - not really surprised. So Bette is right? As in, her analyses are right?
2021-03-10 14:42 Andrew Rambaut open

Once again Bette got the right answer but is using flawed methods. Her 3-sequence recombination method can't distinguish recombination from convergence.
2021-03-10 14:43 Andrew Rambaut open

But recombination is no surprise to any one.
2021-03-10 14:56 Kristian G. Andersen

That's what I thought - and yeah, recombination is absolutely no surprise to anybody who's been following this virus.I can assure you Bette will make full use of being wrongly right, though....
2021-03-10 15:04 Kristian G. Andersen open

Eddie - you're killing me... [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-10 at 14.36.44.png]
2021-03-10 15:09 Robert F. Garry open

I remember a tale of "rightfully" wrong back in the Ebola days https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6300/658.1.full https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27516593/ Rambaut et al show that the erratum to our report on Ebola virus Makona evolution not only corrected sample dates modified byothers in GenBank but also corrected an additional transcriptional error in our original analysis. We agree with their observation that both factors contributed to our revised evolutionary rate estimate but continue to stand by our revised estimate and conclusions.
2021-03-10 15:12 Edward C. Holmes open

Oh, I remember that one well!
2021-03-10 15:48 Robert F. Garry open

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000325

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