Kristian G. AndersenGeverifieerd account

Er that's what BEAST does isn't it ?

Obviously, but they didn’t give us any of the $3B so they can’t use it.

At least the $3 billion will make ICTV happy so they can keep putting their little viruses into little boxes.

FYI none of us is paid on the ICTV. I play role in it on top of all my academic admin of teaching, research, outreach etc.

…this is largely moot as the rate at which new viruses are discovered is accelerating to the point where taxonomy wont be possible.

This sounds like the perfect echo chamber. You guys realize how you are not engaging anyone that has a different view?

True. See Eddie’s paper for a more formal place to start conversation on this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168170217305452 …

Yeah, I already did. But I mean the whole conversation, not only this piece. The discussion about the global virome initiative too.