kevan: I could see very good arguments for us not wishing to know this information. But what's most significant to me is step three in this process, which so flabbergasted me when i learned about it,. And i want to be very clear, and i don't want to exaggerate what step three is. Deep vision will assist in linking in country data with global systems. E g, jen bank and g i s a i d are the repository specifically of virus strains. Not everyone sends the sequence of every strain to gen bank, if there is already a sequence that is very similar there. Gi s ai d is for the detailed borologist, biral
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