Well, one can easily dig into the sequences database, to find some useful clues:
-A lot of chinese papers have been published through the years on the topic, during multiples waves of sample collection over all the chinese mainland. Showing there was/is a notable interest about this pathogen issue.
-One can also easily spot which research center were/are the most active on the topic and its related research teams. Wuhan research center is not excluded from the list as some others main big labs.
-Each entry sequence in the database is dated with a location, publishing team and associated paper. It is useful for following the pathogen evolution building phylogeny trees.
-Aligning a lot of sequences clearly show that this strain is separated from the rest of the others mains strain. The only related sequences are the one released by the chinese team.
-The closest related sequences are 2013 year dated and other from 2015/2017/2019, which per se does not provide a lot of information about the real pathogen evolution.
-The different gain of function that this pathogen got compared to its predecessors is quite remarkable and hard to overlook.
-The overall AT/GC sequence content have also evolved from its predecessors showing rich AT content that is generally related to higher host habit and expression.
So yeah, knowing china is not smiley kind shaped, one can still question the research and lab habit as one would do for any other country.
A theory based on excessive and unregulated animal sampling could have exacerbated the real cross-transmission issue is as valid as the one about pathogen leaking from the lab or simply by natural evolution.
Anyway one can clearly take a moment to question the overall package, along the safety lab practices deployed around the world when dealing with potential pathogens.
I'd be interested to look at that sequence comparison in more detail. IIRC you can link BLAST results etc. directly from NCBI's site, and I'm sure you can link the sequence accessions to which you refer.
Looking very carefully and with patience one can find everything on NCBI database.
Otherwise there is a big repository of sequence here: http://www.mgc.ac.cn/DBatVir/
Yes, but the NCBI sequence database is quite vast. You seem already to have gone to the effort of finding and reviewing these sequences, and producing an analysis. Why not share your sources as well as your results, instead of asking others to find them from scratch and have to hope they're the same ones you're using?
All this stuff sums up to the already existing superciliousness nonsense a living form needs to goes through during life, as perpetual assault to any knowledgeable human being living on this planet!
Human Being going down further and further without any brake!
-One can predict the social ants behaviour spending enough time observing them!
-One can predict the social human being behaviour spending enough time observing them!
=>The only simple difference lie into not using the knowledge and data acquired about the ants to change what is their behaviour!
That's what science gave to industry without any scientist from any biological field felt ashamed about!
I feel ashamed about!
Still the things explained into this presentation could be potentially true and really used. They are not too much difficult to implement in a real daily basis case.
There is a lot of gaming publishers that are focusing on patenting AI algorithm to be used in modern games.
Well add to this the environment mapping using sound and wireless.
So we give them our personal data, share our environment, share our bio-metric data.
In few words one can completely reconstitute your life without asking you nothing and use these data for purpose you will never know.
The real issue as it was for BTFII, it target also children in young age. So we persecute rapist but not persecute these behaviors that totally rape the point of view and behavior of small infant.
Especially if linked to any related games our children play with. If these new AI algorithm work on grown human being, their impact would go even further on infant!
At this point i would prefer my child playing with DUKE NUKEM than the actual modern smartphone/PC games!
I agree, the paradox make me smile. Hence i was said these kind of games were bad for children's.
And now look were the gaming industry drive us.
This blow completely my mind as gamer fan! ^^
I went straight to the comment without seeing this one. It seems that they are threatening to ban people for brigading, even though they may never see the warning, and even if they are truly voting accordingly because they agree or disagree with it. That's a bit messed up to me, especially considering they can just lock it. Although, I suppose a reddit ban wouldn't be the worst thing for productivity.
