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Dave said:
<The numbers of viruses involved are considered too expensive to investigate
all at once.>
Not necessarily. True if you use multiple PCR primers. When they become
available, tools like microarrays will be able to look at all known viruses at
once for about $100 or less.
But, we don't have to wait. There are tools that can do all viruses,
bacteria, fungi, etc. at once. Costs about $250 per sample, so its not cheap, but
its not so expensive if you consider the information produced per sample.
And, another tool, IVDS, gives us a way at looking at all viruses at once
for reasonable costs, relatively inexpensive.
I assume by synthetic data, you mean some form of modeling. Well and fine,
but I expect that by Christmas, we will release a database that can be mined,
using actual data on all known viruses and other pathogens in bee samples
from across the U.S.
We'll show some of this today at MT beekeepers, more at the Research
Luncheon of CA beekeepers, and again at the AHPA. Haven't an invite yet from ABF
:-).
Jerry
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