most citedAn open debate on SARS-CoV-2's proximal origin is long overdue

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q-bio.GN2021

Nipah virus vector sequences in COVID-19 patient samples sequenced by the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Steven C. Quay, Daoyu Zhang, Adrian Jones +1

We report the detection of Nipah virus in an infectious clone format, a BSL4-level pathogen and CDC-designated Bioterrorism Agent, in raw RNA-Seq sequencing reads deposited by the…

q-bio.GN2021

There are no valid points of criticism in Tyshkovskiy and Panchin's response (10.1002/bies.202000325) to our paper "The genetic structure of SARS-CoV-2 does not rule out a laboratory origin" (DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000240)

Yuri Deigin, Rossana Segreto

Tyshkovskiy and Panchin have recently published a commentary on our paper in which they outline several "points of disagreement with the Segreto/Deigin hypothesis". As our paper is…

q-bio.OT2021

An appeal for an open scientific debate about the proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

Jacques van Helden, Colin D Butler, Bruno Canard +10

One year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 still eludes humanity. Early publications firmly stated that the virus was of natural origin, and the po…

q-bio.GN2021

Unexpected novel Merbecovirus discoveries in agricultural sequencing datasets from Wuhan, China

Daoyu Zhang, Adrian Jones, Yuri Deigin +2

In this study we document the unexpected discovery of multiple coronaviruses and a BSL-3 pathogen in agricultural cotton and rice sequencing datasets. In particular, we have identi…

q-bio.PE20211 cited

An open debate on SARS-CoV-2's proximal origin is long overdue

Rossana Segreto, Yuri Deigin, Kevin McCairn +6

There is a near consensus view that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural zoonotic origin; however, several characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 taken together are not easily explained by a natural zo…

q-bio.GN2020

The bat coronavirus RmYN02 is characterized by a 6-nucleotide deletion at the S1/S2 junction, and its claimed PAA insertion is highly doubtful

Yuri Deigin, Rossana Segreto

Zhou et al. reported the discovery of RmYN02, a strain closely related to SARS-CoV-2, which is claimed to contain a natural PAA amino acid insertion at the S1/S2 junction of the sp…