Schedule and Readings
See Class 8.
Slides
The slides from the 16 February class are here: class9.pdf
Links
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J. Marmurt and P. Doty. Determination of the Base Composition of Deoxyribonucleic Acid from its Thermal Denaturation Temperature. Journal of Molecular Biology, 1962.
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How to Grade (this is a write-up of my grading system, although the symbols are slightly different from what we are using in this class). Since we are using “virtual” goal stars, you don’t need to be worried about any alarming gold star shortages.
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Maruya Saitou and Masatoshi Nei. The Neighbor-joining Method: A New Method for Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees. Molecular Biological Evolution, 1987.
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Letter organized by Peter Daszak, Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, The Lancet, 19 February 2020. Addendum on competing interests, 21 June 2021.
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Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes and Robert F. Garry . The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nature Medicine, 17 March 2020.
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There are hundreds of articles with different viewpoints on the more likely origins of Covid-19. These are two of the more balanced ones:
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Carolyn Kormann. The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory. The New Yorker, 12 October 2021.
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Claire Felter. Will the World Ever Solve the Mystery of COVID-19’s Origin?. Council on Foreign Relations, 3 November 2021.
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Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s book Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 pretends to be balanced (and I believe is mostly solid), but has a clear agenda. Scott Aaronson’s (positive) Review, New Republic review (take down).