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It'll be interesting to see if the whole zoo goes down with covid.... [2021-01-15 12:41:46] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-01-15 11:15:51] @Kristian Andersen We are building a website that will track 'constellations' rather than variants. Combinations of mutations of known or predicted importance. Were you can cross cut the data to see where those combinations have arisen and in what contexts (independent of the phylogenetic history). [2021-01-15 12:44:31] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-01-15 11:15:51] @Kristian Andersen Yeah, that'll be important to have, however, I'd love to have a way to "look up" particular mutations - e.g., E484K telling me it increases affinity and is involved in immune escape - so more on the functional side to make sense of the phylogenetic data. Would be similar to Jesse's 'maps', but with much more information. Not an easy task at all though... [2021-01-15 12:48:00] [Robert Garry] Would be sad - my three favorite zoos happen to be in NOLa, San Diego and Sydney. [2021-01-15 12:49:16] [Kristian Andersen] Separately - can I just point out that it's 85 degrees in San Diego today. I thought it was winter..?! :beach_with_umbrella: [2021-01-15 13:37:08] [Eddie Holmes] I'm particularly partial to gibbons. [2021-01-15 13:51:08] [Kristian Andersen] Possibly the second best thing on Twitter today (after Andrew's Variant Rant) https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/1350181257313882112?s=20 [2021-01-15 13:54:38] [Eddie Holmes] Wow. [2021-01-15 13:58:41] [Kristian Andersen] I guess Mike won't be invited to comment on the microbial programs... [2021-01-15 14:25:19] [Eddie Holmes] Pass the sick bag: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/theater/lauren-gunderson-the-catastrophist-nathan-wolfe.ht ml?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage [2021-01-15 14:37:53] [Robert Garry] I can't look - ok I'm going to look, but please have look at the "quick" virological post on indels. It's fleshed out A LOT but needs input. Proposed author list is a reverse of PO1 with delBL and addition of ProfBill [for fun] and a couple of students who contributed to the Vero passage. THOUGHTS PLEASE https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UMQokOz_gDqE0s9keyI7ES8bC7-55EOFuA4UiznEP08/edit?usp=sharing