A short addendum to my pre-print on early Wuhan #SARSCoV2 sequences deleted from the Sequence Read Archive (https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407445604029009923 …), courtesy of an anonymous Twitter user. (1/n)
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It turns out that mention of the sequencing project in question (PRJNA612766) also disappeared from China National GeneBank (CNGB) shortly after it was removed from the NIH Sequence Read Archive. (2/n)
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On June-19-2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20200619042751/https://db.cngb.org/datamart/disease/DATAdis19/ … (3/n)pic.twitter.com/yK27bNd73M
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On July-3-2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20200703063112/https://db.cngb.org/datamart/disease/DATAdis19/ … (4/n)pic.twitter.com/FshZanHN6J
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Replying to @jbloom_lab
If those are your dates, they may have disappeared shortly after the related paper went online. Revision submitted 27 May, goes online 24th of June 2020, stuff gets deleted shortly after. Plausible: paper published, someone noticed, ???, moved to delete. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202002169 …pic.twitter.com/PfUsDYDXrl
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Replying to @zeynep @jbloom_lab
It would help to clarify to know the date of the request to NCBI for SRA deletion.
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NIH told
@carlzimmer: “These SARS-CoV-2 sequences were submitted for posting in SRA in March 2020 and subsequently requested to be withdrawn by the submitting investigator in June 2020"2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
Interesting! So deletion request definitely came after submission, at least and possibly after publication. Fits a scenario where scientists submit in good faith and then someone notices and overrides. (Retractions get noted, preprint couldn’t be withdrawn—archive doesn’t allow).
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