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Re:Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the... by nextos on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:35PM (#22206621)
Large (but <100) evalues are sometimes considered as weak evidence of some evolutionary process if you are querying against a huge database with closely related sequences. However, given the length of their first 2 hits I'd tend to think this is by random chance. The last 2 are more interesting.

And the fact that there's no known CoV with any of these inserts is quite intriguing.

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Re:Scientists claim to find HIV virus-like insertions in the... by folli on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:46PM (#22206717)
The last two (look at table 1) are interesting in such a way that its almost scientific misconduct akin to photoshopping a picture in a scientific paper. They blasted the inserts, but apparently couldn't find any matches to HIV, so they just changed them until they found something.
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