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[2021-04-06 16:10:24] [Eddie Holmes] Cluster of 6 with the same deletion [2021-04-06 16:14:56] [Andrew Rambaut] Do you mean these 6? [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-04-06 16:15:03] [Andrew Rambaut] With the ends missing? [2021-04-06 16:21:40] [Eddie Holmes] I honestly don't know - someone from Princeton just asked me. They said they had 10 B117 and 6 were identical and had a deletion. Perhaps they just failed to get full length. [2021-04-06 17:33:52] [Eddie Holmes] Daszak emailed me about the new DRASTIC paper. He's feeling the heat already. [2021-04-06 17:47:05] [Eddie Holmes] I blocked the piece of shit: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-04-07 at 10.44.09 am.png] [2021-04-06 18:52:09] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-04-06 18:52:09] To the DRASTIC paper - just wait until they look through the GTEx dataset from the Broad and identify the hundreds of Bostonians who died of Ebola :scream: [2021-04-06 18:55:13] [Kristian Andersen] Love this bit. Somebody might want to tell them about the RT-PCR enzymes used for RNASeq.... This is so dumb. I appreciate the enthusiasm, but they might want to talk to experts before doing this crap. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-04-06 at 6.54.07 PM.png] [2021-04-06 19:07:37] [Eddie Holmes] Ha! Focanuba priceless. [2021-04-06 19:09:17] [Kristian Andersen] I might steal this line for a future paper though - "Using a forensic bioinformatics approach [...]". That's pretty good... [2021-04-06 19:11:25] [Eddie Holmes] They should have said Forensic Bioinformatics Investigation (FBI). [2021-04-06 19:11:51] [Kristian Andersen]