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by throwawaymaths 1334 days ago
This is brilliant: it looks at the negative space in restriction enzymes cut patterns to determine the likelihood that these sites have been engineered out. I don't see details on why they picked BSM-B1 to analyze, but the only thing is if they looked at several re sites and only reported the interesting one, that alters the meaning of the statistics to the negative of the hypothesis. (I happen to believe the lab leak hypothesis -- there are receipts if you search hard, but I think we should be careful about our evidence)