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This is laughable. Table 1 shows four alignments. The first two are only six contiguous residues, so can easily happen by chance. Three has multiple mistmatc
by gravelc 7y ago
This is laughable.
Table 1 shows four alignments. The first two are only six contiguous residues, so can easily happen by chance. Three has multiple mistmatches as well as the gap (red). Four has an even larger gap to get the alignment.
Take any two viruses and there's a decent likelihood of finding similar alignments.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoThanks honestly reassuring. - Some layman.
- dylz 7y agoThey don't appear to even be matching entire sequences. An analogy might be "these two web pages both contain <div>*</div>! oh no!" while completely disregarding everything in the middle.
- KaoruAoiShiho 7y agoIf it's as bad as it sounds, would this be a neophyte mistake or deliberate conspiracy mongering?
- dekhn 7y agoBased on my read, it's inexperienced bioinformaticists.
- dylz 7y agoI don't know, nor am I in a position to really have an opinion on this, but it might even be as small of a reason as "hey I want to get published" The PDF itself is MS Word, has numerous typos/little care (words like 'alingment'), random font changes back and forth between Times New Roman and the default MS Word font (Calibri?)) For HIV related fearmongering about "well, why would they know to treat it with HIV meds??", people are looking at this already because previous SARS-CoV has previous investigation with HIV medication, it is not unique to nCOV: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14985565 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14985565, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15144898 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15144898, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14519691 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14519691 - these are from 2003-2006.
- randall 7y agoThat makes the first thing sound like treknobabble.