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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by tripletao on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:05AM (#33285683)
> As far as I've been able to read, those sites aren't in the final assembly in Shi's papers - just in the primers.

Where did you read that? Kinney explicitly asserts the opposite, but I can't figure out what he's referring to. Someone else linked to Figure S9 from their 2017 PLOS Pathogens paper, which indeed seems not to contain the site in the final assembly. I've edited my other comment here to reflect that.

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by mikeyouse on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:13PM (#33291934)
Nope - the restriction sites aren't in the final assembly in that paper. These authors just don't understand the tools remotely well enough to have written their paper. It will never be published.

https://twitter.com/alchemytoday/status/1583361758903013376

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by tripletao on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:33PM (#33292138)
Yeah, I think Kinney is wrong here. Someone else found a survey paper noting the theoretical possibility of using BsaI and BsmBI in a way that leaves the sites in the final genome, but I haven't seen anyone who actually did that. So I'm leaning to a false discovery here.
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