[october_sky]

Yes, it's completely and exceptionally awesome that we can just sign on the Internet and gain this genome sequence. But it's also important to weigh the value. As the article states:

> but there is insufficient epidemiological information for it to be useful here

[Fomite]

So the authors are using that in a particular manner that might be missed by the general HN audience.

By "insufficient epidemiological information", they mean that the genome cannot, itself, be used to assemble a transmission tree, which is sort of the brass ring of sequence data.

That is not to say that the genome data isn't useful for epidemiology.

[mjw1007]

It looks to me like that quote is talking about one particular sequence that they've left out of their list (it's explaining why they did that), not about the 13 sequences that they have listed.

[october_sky]

Ah, ok. Thank you for pointing that out