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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2931)	2/1/2020 3:39:46 PM
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I agree that it's most likely bio-engineered and is now out of containment. I'd like to see more on the claimed ability to suppress immune response by reducing white count. I think the engineering was focused on latency. The HIV stuff does look "cherry-picked" --very small partial sequences separated by other bits. The small size of the sequences identified could match other organisms or not able to produce correctly folding proteins with receptor affinity. Now that it is out, the history of it is less important than the future. There's going to be some social engineering attached to it that will remain after the virus is gone. reddit.com These would be their blastp results if you don't exclude the vast majority of known proteins: "GTNGTKR" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "HKNNKS" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "GDSSSG" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov "QTNSPRRA" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov You can look for significant virus hits yourself though by clicking on my blast results and filtering for "viruses" (you'll see that they don't hit HIV, nor any other virus). The reason for not reproducing their results is that when you consider the whole protein sequence space, the hits for viruses are too random to be significant. But, if you insisted to repeating the searches only within viruses, here are the blastp results only looking for "Viruses (taxid:10239)" as Organism: "GTNGTKR" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Here is a HIV hit, BUT the number of expected random hits for this kind of similarity is 224, which is incredibly high. "HKNNKS" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Here is an HIV hit, but similar likely is a Bat coronavirus, a Tupanvirus, and a Herpesvirus; it is expected to find 86 similar sequences by chance. "GDSSSG" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov There are over 1000 expected random hits for this sequence! And even then, the list is lead by a Hepatitis E virus, an Edafosvirus, a Bat coronavirus, some phages and Hepatitis B virus. "QTNSPRRA" blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov No HIV seen. However there are some phages, a papillomavirus ...