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Stoking it up on twitter for that 50K. [2020-06-04 17:18:24] [Kristian Andersen] Good. Although to reach that, I think you might have to say we were wrong... [2020-06-04 17:18:37] [Andrew Rambaut] Go full Trevor? [2020-06-04 17:18:56] [Kristian Andersen] Indeed (actually, he's chatting me right now about that new 'paper') [2020-06-04 17:19:15] [Andrew Rambaut] It is my retirement project - become a creationist. [2020-06-04 17:20:57] [Kristian Andersen] Get the Templeton Prize > that's your ticket [2020-06-04 17:21:06] [Andrew Rambaut] It is really annoying - those BC sequences that sit between WA1 and WA2 cluster are almost certainly artefacts (the second defining mutation is in a primer site and they are calling it for the primer). Happens with some of the other BC ones in the WA2 cluster too. [2020-06-04 17:21:43] [Andrew Rambaut] But the folk in the BCCDC won't do anything about it until they have checked it with sanger sequencing [2020-06-04 17:21:47] [Kristian Andersen] Eh? Don't they trim primers? iVar does that... [2020-06-04 17:23:02] [Andrew Rambaut] I don't know the details. It was Nick that was discussing it with them. [2020-06-04 17:23:38] [Kristian Andersen] Hmmm. They certainly should. Does this affect the conclusions from your recent preprint? [2020-06-04 17:25:02] [Andrew Rambaut] We excluded them because we thought they were flawed. Some of the arguments are based on the fact there are no intermediates with only one of the two SNPs. But they are still there and of course the reviewers have pointed it out. [2020-06-04 17:25:22] [Andrew Rambaut] Anyway - not my problem (Mike's problem). [2020-06-04 17:26:01]