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Further analysis of metagenomic datasets containing GD and GX pangolin CoVs indicates widespread contamination, undermining pangolin host attribution
Adrian Jones, Steven E. Massey, Daoyu Zhang +2
The only animals other than bats reported to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses (SARS2r-CoVs) prior to the COVID-19 pandemic are pangolins. In early 2020 mult…
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…
Analysis of pangolin metagenomic datasets reveals significant contamination, raising concerns for pangolin CoV host attribution
Adrian Jones, Daoyu Zhang, Yuri Deigin +1
Metagenomic datasets from pangolin tissue specimens have previously yielded SARS-related coronaviruses which show high homology in their receptor binding domain to SARS-CoV-2, sugg…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…