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Fuck yeah! Sorry, Focanuba! [2021-04-06 19:12:58] [Eddie Holmes] It's Alcanopa. No worries. [2021-04-06 19:50:50] [Kristian Andersen] Argh, pomanycus! [2021-04-06 22:30:09] [Eddie Holmes] Yuri's paper claims to have found a bat CoV with a CMV promoter, a bovine growth hormone polyadenylation signal and a Hepatitis D virus ribozyme. Obvious things to add when you think about it. Definitely no assembly or BLAST issues. [2021-04-06 22:36:15] [Kristian Andersen] He must have pissed his pants when he saw that. [2021-04-06 22:38:19] [Eddie Holmes] Clever trick to add the HDV ribozyme you have to say though. No one would have thought of doing that. [2021-04-06 23:09:01] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-04-06 18:52:09] @Kristian Andersen There is definitely some MERS in the data we got from Vietnam rat butts. Could be related to being run on machines in Sanger a few months after doing MERS from Saudi Arabia. [2021-04-07 04:34:23] [Robert Garry] I'm going with alien technology on that one. So advanced it looks like magic. [2021-04-07 06:56:33] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-04-06 18:52:09] @Kristian Andersen No, Andrew, wrong - it's because of the covert military research they're doing in Vietnam. There's no simple explanation for stuff like this! [2021-04-07 07:16:34] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-06 18:52:09] @Kristian Andersen Yip! I've seen the intelligence reports myself. We need a full *forensic* investigation. My understanding is that eDim, Relman, Alina, Jamie, Pottinger, Asher and Filipa are already on the case. [2021-04-07 07:19:27] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-06 18:52:09] @Kristian Andersen Can't wait to see the Wall-of-Crazy on this one! [2021-04-07 11:24:39] [Robert Garry]