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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by xyzzy123 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:54PM (#27610974)
You're thinking of the WIV database that was offlined 12 September.

This is new. We don't know why the sequence was deleted; the submitter cited "version control" reasons (data was being submitted somewhere else) but then deleted both known copies.

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by markus_zhang on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:12PM (#27611750)
See an earlier post for reason. Looks like they resubmitted somewhere else and wanted the copy to ne deleted
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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by xyzzy123 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:28PM (#27612395)
Except the only other known copy was also deleted :/

"It turns out that mention of the sequencing project in question (PRJNA612766) also disappeared from China National GeneBank (CNGB) shortly after it was removed from the NIH Sequence Read Archive. (2/n)"

https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407542296497688580?s=...

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