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DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com DR. BARIC: The sequence of the SHC014 chimera. So we provided that, and we also put the WIV1 sequence up in PubMed and they analyzed that sequence and agreed that it was not the cause of the pandemic. MS. SALAZAR: And that was your decision, solely. No one encourage you or suggested? DR. BARIC: Nobody encouraged me or suggested it. In this case I approached the journal because, again, going back to the transmissible flu studies, it was not just the creation of the transmissible flu virus that was considered sensitive information. It was the details of the technology which also was dual-use. So it's not necessarily just the creation of the entity or the pathogen that's gain-or-function or dual-use. The methodology can be sensitive, and I felt that it was best that we did not provide that information. So that's one example. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. DR. BARIC: The second example, which is the reason why I'm reluctant to talk about it here, because I do not want to be responsible as the one who releases it to the public. If you all choose to do that then you can accept the responsibility of that. Sometimes in science you come across findings that are potentially concerning. And so in this case, Fang Li had been doing studies using biochemical approaches to identify