[jlduan]

Because of the highly politicalized nature, some Chinese scientists begin to deposit SARS-CoV-2 sequences to their own databases (hosted in China).

https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome https://db.cngb.org/

[dang]

Please keep nationalistic swipes out of HN comments. They only make things worse. Your post would be fine without the first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[jlduan]

i agree. sorry.

[jlduan]

it is possible they changed mind and chose to deposit there.

[ketamine__]

Why? They are worried about American scientists chasing after them?

[jlduan]

It is a political thing. Japan has DDBJ (https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/index-e.html). EU has ENA/EBI (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/home). Maybe China wants to have its own.

More Chinese institutes are encouraging their scientists to deposit human bio-sample data to their own servers. Some grants even require them to do so.