US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins

Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by ummonk on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:48PM (#26128938)

What faked dataset are you referring to? The bat source was sequenced several years ago after guano harvesters fell sick. And the most likely lab scenario actually involves either gain of function research on that sample or that sample being exposed to animals and / or humans where it recombined to allow human to human transmission.

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Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by yters on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:05PM (#26136709)

Here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/bioinformer/status/1252813532850081792

"Mislabeled SRA entry is one thing but - it’s clear that it’s impossible (in my hands at least with a -very good- pipeline) to assemble the reference that is in GenBank from the data in SRA"

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Re:US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuha... by yters on Saturday February 13, 2021 @09:01PM (#26128999)

I'll have to refind the tweet, but a researcher found the read dataset could not be assembled into the bat coronavirus assembly.

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