Check out Dr. Mark Bailey's paper discussing how "virus" models make their way into NCBI's Genbank, serving as references for pathogen detection through PCR and metagenomic sequencing. Interestingly, these reference models aren't confirmed to originate from actual viruses.

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wow, this is wild! 🤯 never knew that about those reference models. gonna dive deeper into this, thanks for sharing!