Slack / Private Message Drop — page 46

[2020-05-29 14:04:47] [Andrew Rambaut] ```We also demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2's entire RBM was introduced through recombination with coronaviruses from pangolins``` Nope. Entire RBM was lost from RaTG13 through recombination with another bat virus. [2020-05-29 14:06:43] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, I thought that was the case [2020-05-29 14:29:48] [Robert Garry] Does this mean that the reporters are going to start calling again? I'd just as soon be left alone. [2020-05-29 14:33:55] [Robert Garry] "RBM was lost from RaTG13 through recombination with another bat virus." I'm a believer - definitely the most likely scenario. [2020-05-29 15:31:46] [Eddie Holmes] By definition, I don't see how you can emerge through 'purifying selection'. [2020-05-29 15:33:40] [Eddie Holmes] First I've seen of this: Bette Korber strikes again. [2020-05-29 15:39:23] [Kristian Andersen] I think she should go back to annotating HIV alignments. [2020-05-29 15:41:57] [Eddie Holmes] :bomb: [2020-05-31 04:41:12] [Andrew Rambaut] This is all Brian Foley I would think. He originally posted this on virological (I even replied to say he got the direction of recombination wrong). [2020-05-31 04:42:03] [Andrew Rambaut] Wonder what happened to Korber's D614G paper with its entirely fictional Belgium recombination event? [2020-05-31 16:39:21] [Eddie Holmes] I heard it went to Cell but I've heard nothing. Surely it will get binned and end-up in IGE next to more awesome output from Frankie Bollocks. [2020-06-01 10:01:58] [Kristian Andersen] Why does this kind of crap get published? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.26067. Isn't this the journal with the snake flu paper too? [2020-06-01 10:47:00]