Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 136

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com meets has got to exceed what I do by at least 100-fold. So I would be shocked if he felt that he knew me closely, because that's not true. That's just not true. MS. SALAZAR: Did you have a copy of RaTG, the genome before 2020? DR. BARIC: No. Yeah, so that was first published in 2013 as a sequence fragment, that I didn't notice. And then they came out with a sequence, I think, in, what, 2017, 2018, somewhere around there. It did not catch my notice. I mean, oftentimes, every once in a while we do searches on sequences, to see if there's anything interesting out there that we might want to work on. But it didn't catch our attention. So it didn't come to my attention fully until they published their paper in January of 2020. And so I agree with people like Elaine Chen and others that have looked at the sequence information around that virus and say that I don't know. Like she has reported, we could not recreate the full-length sequence that they provided, based on the sequence information that they provided. There were gaps, in other words. It was not complete. Some of it was very good, where they had good coverage, so they had a lot of coverage of that particular chromosome and then they cloned out a specific plasma DNA of that region and sequenced it. So there are regions that