bioinformatics

There are many solutions to your problem, some simple, some more complex.

I am surprised that they didn't ask for a list of the subscribers including SSN.

Computational requirements are quite high, but OK if you have good GPUs on hand. A coronavirus sequenced sample on the fast mode without GPUs would take 3-4 hours to complete, while on the high accuracy mode days. GPU access would speed up performance considerably.

Error rate for MinIONs is still quite high (10-15%), so a human genome sequencing would be quite inaccurate in some regions.

Sequencer is quite cheap, reagents and flow cells are a little bit more expensive.

Yes, everyone that is alive today will be dead one day.

It was before the election.

I think it would be great, all the Zoom servers in China might be moved to some place with better standards.

I get my medical advice from people that make great experiences.

Yes, noticed that by reading the comments on CBC's site.

You missed the worldwide vote for the company that should hold the only truths in all matters? Twitter won. Google second and FB third.

Municipal, and not universal. So it's BI.

Stopped at Coelho ...

So profound and poetic.

They should create a union.

I am pretty sure the work environment at Google is extremely oppressive, with low salaries and and top-down evil capitalist only approach. After all how can millionaires Google employees can have their voices heard if they don't unionize? Maybe they will demand better snacks in the cafeteria and a new foosball table at the end of the indoor slide.

No one is forcing the talented engineers working at Google to work there. Especially when a do-not-evil-motto company is monitoring (AKA reading) their emails.

Wait a couple of years, or maybe four, nah, let's say 10, or 20, probably close to 30 and snow will be a thing of the past. Better say, 50. OK, by 2100.

Do they have ads? I don’t like to get my browser history dirty.

Science as a whole. Wait and see.

Science and academia are dead.

I am all for giving everyone in the right, a number tattoo so we can keep them under control, and maybe put them in specific locations around US and the world so their influence in a normal and joyous society won't be a problem for us common folks.

What do you think?

I think it's global warming. It has to be.

You too, champ.

You can include the majority of commenters on this site too as the effetes.

So, John can you explain the Science behind these things? Thanks a lot.

That's spot on. It's a self inflicted wound.

Is it worse or better than Surveillance Communism?

England, mainly with Ferguson, and now with this new "super" mutating virus is ending the last dime of credibility that scientists had with the civil society. After this pandemic, no one will ever listen to a scientist again. Maybe not everyone, but a good percentage of the population for sure.

I would close schools forever, but that's my personal opinion.

Genetic drift that fixates 14 new mutations, including deletions, in the most negative selected gene in this virus is an abomination, almost statistically impossible, very very close to 0. Even if the incubation and infection time inside this one individual was enough for 1,000,000 generations there's no way for something like that to happen.

"The accrual of 14 lineage-specific amino acid replacements prior to its detection is, to date, unprecedented in the global virus genomic data for the COVID-19 pandemic."

No, this unprecedented on any living and non-living thing that we know.[1]

"In all of this, its worth remembering we've never tracked an epidemic in this much detail before, so perhaps this sort of thing is just par for the course."

We tracked very well the flu during its high season, and influenza genomes are used constant to monitor mutations and other aspects of viral evolution, population genetics and phylogeny.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/96/24/13910

well, many don't know what science is, what scientific method is, and actual scientists.