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#SeenOnReddit Apparently SRR13441704, SRR13441705, and SRR1344170 contain hits to the SARS-CoV-2 genome.
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Reddit commenters are suggesting index hopping contamination.
doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…
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Reddit commenters are suggesting index hopping contamination.
doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.…
"they had sequenced the samples with Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) after extracting the DNA in December 2019 from their samples.... They deleted the three most contaminated samples from the Sequence Read Archive. They do not know why the samples were then "un-deleted."
I'll make a mental note to add "accidentally attributing SARS-CoV-2 sequences to Antarctic metagenome sequences from 2018" to my commentary on the perils of chimeric reads if I'm ever asked to present on that again.
f1000research.com/slides/8-1947
f1000research.com/slides/8-1947
