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    1. On 2020-11-17 20:05:02, user matthew scholz wrote:

      It may be too late to ask this, but looking at your figshare data, it doesn't look like the kraken2 databases have bracken indexes included. Is it possible to generate them?

    1. On 2020-11-16 23:18:09, user Fraser Lab wrote:

      This manuscript details the efforts of a team of structural biology computational experts to cross-validate the proliferating SARS-CoV-2 structures emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past five months, as soon as each new SARS-CoV-2 structure is made publicly available, the authors have subjected it to a barrage of validation metrics as well as residue-by-residue manual inspection. When they were able to get a hold of the raw data, they analyzed that as well for several of the most commonly occurring pathologies. Re-refined structures were sent back to the structures' original authors for reupload to the PDB via the recently available versioning option that preserves the PDB code (although it would be nice to quantify how many authors were contacted and what the “re-versioning” rate is after contact). In this manner, the structural biology community has simultaneously benefitted from an increased number of experimentalists' single-minded focus on the coronavirus (even where these efforts fall partly outside their areas of expertise) and these experts' careful curation of the resulting structures.

      The manuscript represents an incredible effort. As the authors call attention to in a few places, the errors in data processing and modeling are not only inevitable (especially under the circumstances) but tolerable, as long as they can be identified and corrected in a timely manner — the goal is not to gatekeep so that only experts are permitted to do this work, but to tag-team as effectively and efficiently as possible. Furthermore, there is the separate issue of pathologies resulting from decisions during data collection that cannot be corrected after the fact. It is critical that fixable and unfixable issues are extremely clearly distinguished from each other. We suggest the authors rewrite some of these narratives with the deliberate aim of identifying the origins of pathologies that can be mitigated or corrected in full, again differentiating between these, and taking care that the wording is as charitable as possible toward the researchers responsible.

      There are a few cases of oversimplified concepts that we believe can be succinctly expressed more accurately. For example, where the authors describe data as being "incomplete due to radiation damage," they could instead take the time to explain the difference between incompleteness resulting from a poorly chosen collection strategy, incompleteness in higher resolution bins, and radiation-induced damage that renders some reflections (and some real-space features) self-consistent but inaccurate. The "lower quality" of datasets suffering from these pathologies could be separated into uniformly low resolution datasets, which are more easily recognizable, and seemingly high-resolution datasets with serious systematic errors.

      The authors could also be more clear with a couple choices of wording around concepts of correctness. They write, "While the deposited structures are often improved by PDB-REDO, they need to be checked and should not be viewed as 'more correct' purely on [the] basis of a lower R value." In this and several other instances, we challenge the authors to replace any terms assigning value (improved, correct, error, bad, misidentified) with descriptions of what metrics they are examining and what they mean for the model and data. This publication is an opportunity to instill readers with a stronger sense of how to use the existing validation tools, and what to do when they turn up serious issues. It would be highly useful to go into some explanation of what constitutes model bias and how this is detected in crystallographic and EM data, what metrics we traditionally use to detect it, what happens when we refine against those metrics (!), and how the tradeoff between agreement with priors (geometry, clashscore) and agreement with data (real space CC, FSC) should vary with map quality. If the authors are willing to go as deep as explaining how the available validation metrics were devised, the average reader might learn quite a bit!

      A separate but closely related issue is the identification of real features that conflict with prior knowledge. Under what circumstances do we accept "bad" geometry is actually the right way to model something? These are often information-rich and functionally relevant discoveries, such as Hoogsteen base pairing or very strained geometries at a catalytic site. This is worth calling attention to.

      We read the opening of the "manual evaluation" section as a framing of structure solution as tedium that should be automated as much as possible, but whose results nevertheless fall short in the absence of an expert's intervention. This is unfortunate. We would rather laud both the amazing efficiency (and thereby throughput) that automating routine steps has made possible and the important role of the researcher in guiding the process and interpreting the results.

      On the topic of data not deposited in the PDB, the authors describe a case of a severely radiation damaged dataset and how it was necessary to reprocess the raw data to improve it. We strongly agree that raw data should be made publicly available for exactly these sorts of reasons. Once again, separating this administrative barrier from the researchers' decisions during data collection would be helpful in setting a positive tone. The authors point out the amazing proteindiffraction.org resource and should call for more deposition there (or to SBGrid DataGrid). In EM, the EMPIAR database plays a similar role (with greater proportional adoption) and the reprocessing potential of datasets deposited there should be highlighted and celebrated.

      The "supplying context", "summary" and especially "outlook" sections bring up some extremely important points that could bear to be repeated at the beginning of the manuscript to help frame this work. The tradeoff necessary under the present circumstances in particular — the fact that imperfect "first draft" structures are still useful, and much more useful when they can be quickly updated with any corrections — deserves greater emphasis, and perhaps further discussion of how the field should go about addressing and documenting problems with models and data after the pandemic. We are overall very excited to see this work in print alongside the resources already publicly available at insidecorona.net. Collectively, that resource and this manuscript represent an exciting development in peer review away from gatekeeping and toward continuous improvement!

      Finally, we note a handful of points that we suggest would improve readability:<br /> SARS-CoV is now also known as SARS-CoV-1. We strongly suggest using this term throughout the manuscript to differentiate it from SARS-CoV-2.<br /> The phrase "not by experimentalists, but scientists from other fields" suggests a false dichotomy. We recommend rewording so as to recognize the existence of experimentalists in other fields. <br /> The rationale for annotating secondary structures with the Haruspex neural network is not yet clear.<br /> The COVID-19 pandemic is "unprecedented" in very recent history, but arguably not unique even in recorded history — we would favor a different term here.<br /> The abbreviation RdRp is not defined.<br /> "fulfil" is a typo.<br /> “Structures solved in a hurry to address a pressing medical and societal need _are_ even more prone to mistakes.” - suggest "may be"

      James Fraser and Iris Young (UCSF)

    1. On 2020-11-16 21:30:35, user Michael Bok wrote:

      Interesting manuscript! I will need to read it in detail.

      Regarding mantis shrimp UV color vision, we have shown behaviourally that they can discriminate different wavelengths of UV light independent of intensity. But being mantis shrimp, things are a bit convoluted and we chose to describe it as "polychromatic UV sensitivity" rather than "UV color vision".

    1. On 2020-11-16 16:29:03, user Wilhelm wrote:

      I was unable to find the uniprot data for A7YK11 and A7YK09. From the available data on A7YK10, it is a murine norovirus strain. As Human immune responses have been show to be highly genotype specific, there is a significant loss of relavence in regards to characterizing the human immune response to a human norovirus infection. I suggest performing these experiments with the predominant Norovirus strain GII.4.

    1. On 2020-11-16 14:14:59, user Melissa wrote:

      Hi everyone

      Very interesting paper, looking forward to the publication.

      Could you upload the data onto EMPIAR?

      Regards,<br /> Melissa

    1. On 2020-11-15 18:52:51, user Raghu Parthasarathy wrote:

      This is a fascinating paper, and it's great to see new data of a sort I've never encountered before, from a wide variety of species. Could you please include, in the supplementary material, the actual raw data of killed bacterial fraction for each bacterial species, mammal, and dilution? This would be a straightforward text data file, and would allow the reader to replot and think about all the relationships. It would be great, for example, to apply various models to the data of figure S8, but for all data sets. (The spline doesn't tell us much.) Thanks!

    1. On 2020-11-14 11:55:11, user Sal Peralta wrote:

      Prunella vulgar is not just a Chinese medicinal herb. The herb has a worldwide distribution and has been used medicinally across the world for millennia.

    1. On 2020-11-14 02:58:55, user Radostin Danev wrote:

      Very exciting work!<br /> I would recommend replacing "Near-atomic resolution" with "Cryo-EM" in the title. Also, replace "unbiased" with "reference-free" in "Unbiased cryo-EM image processing" in the methods.

      Best wishes,

      Rado

    1. On 2020-11-13 23:24:04, user anna bernasconi wrote:

      Please note that this preprint has now been published in the Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2020).<br /> The version on bioRxiv (last posted on May 1st, 2020) is not the final version, but the first submitted version. Readers should view the published LINK for the final version of the paper, for further reference and citation:

      Bernasconi A., Canakoglu A., Pinoli P., Ceri S. (2020) Empowering Virus Sequence Research Through Conceptual Modeling. In: Dobbie G., Frank U., Kappel G., Liddle S.W., Mayr H.C. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1_29

    1. On 2020-11-13 15:05:43, user Abhay Sharma wrote:

      Notably, a recent clinical trial (U. Padmanabhan, S. Mukherjee, R. Borse, S. Joshi, R. Deshmukh. Phase II Clinical trial for Evaluation of BCG as potential therapy for COVID-19. medRxiv 2020.10.28.20221630) has found that moderate adult COVID-19 patients administered a single dose of intradermal BCG achieve faster resolution of hypoxia, and significant radiological improvement and viral load reduction, without showing evidence of BCG induced cytokine storm (31). The epidemiological transcriptomic evidence of persistently upregulated antiviral defense response and downregulated myeloid cell activation in BCG vaccinated subjects (the present preprint) is in line with this new finding.

    1. On 2020-11-12 19:34:33, user Craig Kaplan wrote:

      This preprint would have a greater impact if the methods section were added to allow the experiments to be better understood.

    1. On 2020-11-12 09:02:43, user Chih-Ting wrote:

      Hi, it's an interesting topic. Is there any information about the exact position of the leader sequence in the Figure 1 ? Thanks!

    1. On 2020-11-11 21:40:52, user Ridhi wrote:

      This paper conducted a thorough analysis of the role of Smpd3 (and other genes) in neural crest EMT. A strength is the meticulous experiments conducted in order to identify Smpd3 as a significant gene of interest. Hybridization chain reaction was performed to amplify and detect Smpd3, and Figure 1c and 1d clearly show the strong expression pattern of this gene at both pre-migratory and migratory stages, supporting your hypothesis that the gene is critical to EMT. Figure 2c shows a similar pattern, in which nSMase2 knockdown via electroporation displays a clear reduction in neural crest cell migration, relative to the negative control (a non-binding MO). However, for the electroporation experiments, it would have been beneficial to include a positive control, such as an MO designed against a highly expressed neural crest gene to ensure binding specificity. Next, the Wnt/BMP signaling quantification in Figure 3c is a bit unclear. You state that the nSMase2 knockdown reduced both Wnt and BMP output; however, the image does not show a convincing decrease in GFP intensity to support a significant reduction in Wnt signaling. The BMP image, on the other hand, paints a more convincing picture, as the GFP fluorescence is almost negligible compared to the control side. Finally, you state that endocytosis inhibition phenocopies nSMase2 knockdown, citing Figure 4c as evidence. However, the image shows that the reduction in migration after endocytosis inhibition is clearly not as significant as that observed after nSMase2 knockdown. Further experiments to compare the reduction in migration would be beneficial.

    2. On 2020-11-10 07:21:09, user Eddie wrote:

      I enjoyed reading this paper and finding out more about epithelial to mesenchymal transition in correlation with the membrane. I found figure 1 to show a strong and clear introduction towards your paper. The labeling of your figures also helped in understanding the structure and components. From what I gathered, figure 2b is supposed to show the reduction of ceramide expression leading to decreased migration. You add dots to specify the region where the ceramide expression is located and the migration, however it is unclear how you determine what to include within this dotted area. It would be nice to add, within your methods, your reasoning to incorporate certain regions within the dotted area as well as how you quantified your results. I enjoyed the side by side comparison for Figure 2c allowing for a direct comparison for your results. Connecting the points in the graph with the control and morpholino was a great addition to help understand and visualize your results. However, as mentioned before, you use dotted lines to assist in visualizing, and, for 3c, it is unclear how you determined these areas and what to include and not include. Additionally, it will help strengthen your argument if you clarify how you quantified your results for 3b and c. An explanation on your quantification for these figures will help better understand these figures and the reasoning. For the Wnt data, it is harder to visualize the change for Wnt signaling compared to the BMP signaling. Providing data that shows the normal expression of Wnt and BMP would help understand the change in expression for Wnt and BMP. Overall, this paper was a great read that presented nice evidence to support your findings. With a few adjustments clarifying your results, this will make the paper stronger.

    3. On 2020-11-10 02:09:02, user Mitchell wrote:

      I am pleased that the paper opened with such strong evidence through the data from figure 1. Both parts a and b show clear distinctions between the premigratory and migratory cells, and the fluorescence imaging for part c is also very clear. This sets up a very interesting research paper with a targeted focus, but for some of the other figures I would have changed a few things. For figure 2b the paper can say that ceramide expression is reduced, but that doesn’t necessarily show cell migration. It would be better to specify the direct implications from this data instead of implying migration. For figure 2c I feel like an additional control is missing. It would have been nice to see a control that binds to highly expressed genes so we have a baseline comparison to make sure the target gene actually binds. You could then knockout the gene and see if the pathway has the predicted effect. Showing this, I feel, would strengthen the evidence. For figure 3, I’m not convinced there is a reduction in Wnt signaling given the way the dotted line was drawn. I’m wanting to know exactly what Wnt and BMP expression levels are or how they change. Finally, for figure 4b, I’m not quite sure why all the yellow dots are included on the left but not on the right. I think this should be made more clear. Overall the paper tracks a logical flow of experiments and data, but I feel a few adjustments would make the work much stronger.

    1. On 2020-11-11 05:43:34, user Bảo Quốc wrote:

      Although it is not conclusive, it is also possible to consult and expand knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 and prevention is also very good. Thanks the author.

    1. On 2020-11-10 21:10:16, user Svetlana Kozmina wrote:

      An excellent review. Inhibition of TNF-a and IFN-g will decrease an excessive inflammation by complete CD40 neutralization, decreasing level of TLR7,9, ROS, IgE/Histidine, interleukins, increasing oxygen by elevation of EPO, transferrin, and RBC levels. However, from my point of view for increasing therapeutic approaches we need to consider combination of this medical therapy with:<br /> 1. Monitoring of the mineral/vitamins balance. Normalization levels of Iron (association with an increasing thrombotic, Hb), Zn and Mg (suppressed Th17/ STAT3, histidine, alcohol, increase of serum transferrin level),vit B6,vit B9 (tryptophan/melatonin balance), vitD and vitE(regulate of Ca+2 and phosphate, reduce IL6), IgE(associate with pulmonary thromboembolism, reduce histidine/histamine, regulate neutrophils production);<br /> 2. Decreasing IL6, IL10 will increase of EPO/ RBC/Hb and oxygen, increase IgA, decrease Th17, IL4, 5,13, IL1, and decrease activation of pathways: inflammation/IFN-g, STAT3, IgE/Histidine,ROS/NF-kB, and TLR7,9/NF-kB;<br /> 3. Increasing intracellular/extracellular oxygen by increasing RBC count, decreasing IL10 level, TNF-a, and IL6/EPO.<br /> 4. Reduction of defect of glycosylation by suppression high levels of HSP70(will decrease chronic inflammation, IFN-g, CD40/CD40L and ROS) and HSP90(will decrease TLR3,7, 9, IL6/STAT3, TNF-a, and increase intracellular oxygen). The molecular chaperones HSP70 and HSP90, stabilize partially unfolded proteins, help maturation, transporting proteins across membranes within the cell and increase level of oligosaccharides with inaccessible proportion congenital disorder of glycosylation. Desialylated ACE2 containing altered N-glycans with 4, 2, and 0 sialic acids has change pH with following reduction of its expression. Present of intracellular alcohol lack sialic acid residue in protein and form mannosylated patterns. Proteins contained N-glycans with mannosylated patterns bind to carbohydrates on the surface of a wide range of pathogens. Melatonin treatment will decrease formation of mannosylated sites of N-glycan by decreasing effects of ethanol on the glycosylation.

    2. On 2020-10-31 20:24:40, user Janet Lee wrote:

      This is the first study to link cytokine mediated inflammation and cell death pathways in COVID-19 infection. STAT1/IRF dysregulation appears to be a common signature observed across studies this study by the Kanneganti lab opens up therapeutic possibilities for patients exhibiting cytokine storm phenotype in severe COVID-19 disease.

    1. On 2020-11-10 13:50:01, user Darren Norris wrote:

      Interesting and timely. <br /> But maybe useful to expand the Discussion in relation to the importance of examining population demographics (what % of the comprehensively assessed species have population trend data available?), particularly as different life stages can be more or less sensitive to "sustainable" or "unsustainable" uses e.g. timber vs non-timber forest products.<br /> Our findings from a global scale analysis of turtles showing early stages (eggs) are perhaps potential candidates for use whereas adults are unlikely to be so may be of interest:<br /> Population dynamics and biological feasibility of sustainable harvesting as a conservation strategy for tropical and temperate freshwater turtles: <br /> https://doi.org/10.1371/jou...

    1. On 2020-11-10 04:09:22, user Adam Alexander Thil SMITH wrote:

      Dear authors,

      I do not have an issue with using the gene permutation approach, however the 3rd sentence of the current version of the introduction incorrectly qualifies the original GSEA implementation as being based on gene permutation, instead of sample permutation. C.F. "step 2" of the method in the referenced paper (Subramanian 2005):

      Step 2: Estimation of Significance Level of ES. We estimate the<br /> statistical significance (nominal P value) of the ES by using an<br /> empirical phenotype-based permutation test procedure that pre-<br /> serves the complex correlation structure of the gene expression<br /> data. Specifically, we permute the phenotype labels and recompute<br /> the ES of the gene set for the permuted data

      The later implementations cited do indeed use gene permutation.

      Best regards,

      -- Alex

    1. On 2020-11-10 01:02:40, user DHelix wrote:

      A very interesting paper! I was wondering if you had removed duplicate fragments when you calculated FRiP and FRiTSS (Figure 1f)? Thanks!

    1. On 2020-11-09 21:31:18, user Clemantine wrote:

      Why would they use aborted fetal tissues lines to experiment with? Using any cell line after the 1947 Nuremberg code requires the informed consent of the Subject and the ability to withdraw from the experiment, both denied to aborted human babies. All cell lines derived after 1947 using aborted fetal tissue is immoral, unethical and illegal and must be discontinued!

    1. On 2020-11-09 17:55:31, user Vishal Koparde wrote:

      Thanks for providing links to the raw data. This raw data is in FASTQ format. Is it possible to get access to the FAST5 files directly?

    1. On 2020-11-09 16:37:20, user anon wrote:

      Very surprising to see some of the most basic controls missing here. A simple "(LNF+mRNA) without exosomes" control is nowhere to be found, and all of the results shown can easily be due to treatment with liposomal mRNA on its own with exosomes spiked in. There's no evidence that the exosomes are helpful or do anything at all. The expression of the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA in cultured cells using patient sera is also unusual, as a Western blot from cell lysates with a monoclonal antibody would give more information, including confirmation that the full-length antigen is expressed.

      I guess this is a pre-print, but some of the basic experimental design, materials/methods, and controls leave quite a few open questions.

    1. On 2020-11-09 16:20:16, user Neil Blumberg wrote:

      You also should be considering the risks of graft versus host disease due to transfusion, which is universally fatal. Perhaps could irradiate the T cells so they cannot replicate, which might of course minimize benefit. Transfusion of allogeneic white cells suppresses host cellular immunity and inappropriately activates innate immunity so this may increase the chances of nosocomial bacterial/fungal infection, increase the risk of inflammation and thrombosis and multi-organ failure. The transfusion literature suggests that removing white cells (the opposite of what is proposed) minimizes morbidity and mortality so this is a reason for concern about this therapy.

    2. On 2020-10-27 16:34:10, user Kamran Kadkhoda wrote:

      What about cross-reacting memory cells from past CoV infections and also what about HLA compatibility issue? These two, among others, will cast doubt on the usefulness of this approach...

    1. On 2020-11-09 15:46:54, user Joe wrote:

      Are the authors suggesting that everyone use this peptide prophylactically until the end of the pandemic? What is the cost for widespread use of this type of therapy?

    2. On 2020-11-09 15:43:05, user Robert wrote:

      How immunogenic is this peptide? Can you use it without developing an immune response to the peptide? How long after you start using the peptide, will your own immune response block the peptides from working?

    3. On 2020-11-06 22:14:54, user MaximumBoo wrote:

      Is COVID only inhaled through the nose? I was under the impression one could inhale though the mouth. How would this help in that regard?

    4. On 2020-11-06 09:42:26, user n nicraith (nnicraith) wrote:

      If this is successful in humans, it could be used to protect Covid-19 caregivers and first responders. If it scales up well, it could also be used in conjunction with contact tracing to limit spread in exposed individuals.

    5. On 2020-11-06 08:51:35, user Williamiain wrote:

      Very interesting-brilliant idea, congratulations. Presumably the drawback with humans is that many of them are mouth breathers and you can’t use the spray there, and additionally humans blow their noses, which would I imagine expel the spray?

    1. On 2020-11-09 12:32:02, user Niko wrote:

      Hello,

      did you test different anitbodies for the dot blot and do you have a reason, why you chose the antibody from Abcam?

      Thanks for your help!

    1. On 2020-11-09 11:41:12, user David Curtis wrote:

      "???? is a shared component with distribution ????~????(0,r2????????/2/2)"<br /> Does this ignore any shared liability due to genetic effects not captured by PRS? E.g. schizophrenia CNVs? And such residual effects would make embryos more similar and your strategy less successful?

    1. On 2020-11-08 01:10:39, user Ricardo Rodriguez de la Vega wrote:

      Hi,

      I read your preprint with interest, I am very much looking forward for the realease of the sequencing datasets.

      I have several questions that I suppose are addressed in the not available supplemental methods, any chance you will make it available?

      Nonetheless, I have a couple of outstanding questions about your phylogenomic and (scorpion toxins) gene trees, that you might want to consider.

      1. How could it be that your least stringent criteria (103 or more species out of 120) will provide a matrix smaller than more stringent criteria (115/120). 2. If I understand it correctly, your gene models for species tree reconstruction are based on your previous phylogenomics of quelicerates, shall we interpret that you find them all in the large number of taxons stated in your matrices (i.e. all 3000+ in at least 115 taxins for matrix 1)?
      2. I understand you obtained a scorpion toxin gene tree for all CSab, ICK and DDH you have identified (1394). Why did you based your tree on an alignment of gene families that are not homologous? While some experts think DDH and ICK are homologous, none of these folds is believed to be in any evolutionary meaningful way related to CSab.

      Ricardo

    1. On 2020-11-07 17:34:28, user giusppe nanni wrote:

      Is it possible to treat symptomatic COVID patients with high D-dimer without heparin, that it was already in the protocol of COVID therapy since april?

    1. On 2020-11-07 09:41:54, user Sebastian Quilo wrote:

      Nice paper in the Biomarker field!<br /> I have a suggestion, it would be better if you add references for the tools used in your work like scikit-learn and PyCM :

      scikit-learn :

      @article{scikit-learn, title={Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in {P}ython}, author={Pedregosa, F. and Varoquaux, G. and Gramfort, A. and Michel, V. and Thirion, B. and Grisel, O. and Blondel, M. and Prettenhofer, P. and Weiss, R. and Dubourg, V. and Vanderplas, J. and Passos, A. and Cournapeau, D. and Brucher, M. and Perrot, M. and Duchesnay, E.}, journal={Journal of Machine Learning Research}, volume={12}, pages={2825--2830}, year={2011} }

      PyCM :

      @article{Haghighi2018, doi = {10.21105/joss.00729}, url = {https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00729}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, publisher = {The Open Journal}, volume = {3}, number = {25}, pages = {729}, author = {Sepand Haghighi and Masoomeh Jasemi and Shaahin Hessabi and Alireza Zolanvari}, title = {{PyCM}: Multiclass confusion matrix library in Python}, journal = {Journal of Open Source Software} }

    1. On 2020-11-07 09:32:44, user N-fixer wrote:

      Nice work! One small query - why do you state that "B. rhizoxinica" is a single lineage? It's clearly in Mycetohabitans, and is sister to M. endofungorum (Estrada de los Santos et al. 2018). Or perhaps you have additional evidence to refute this?

    1. On 2020-11-07 00:56:03, user Charles Warden wrote:

      Thank you for posting this interesting preprint.

      I myself do not use the MGISEQ-2000 data, and there are some applications where I think erring on the side of safely would be better than trying to recover the run.

      However, it is interesting and important to think about how base calling and the sequencers work. So, I am glad that you shared your experiences. Thanks again.

    1. On 2020-11-07 00:51:18, user Charles Warden wrote:

      Thank you for posting this preprint.

      I am not sure what the expectations are for describing the methods in the Abstract (for your communication goals as a preprint and/or if you have a specific eventual peer-reviewed journal in mind). When I saw the abstract, I thought it was a bit strange because some steps were left out (such as your alignment using STAR).

      So, I might consider re-wording the "Methods" within the Abstract (either adding some more information like the aligner, or perhaps providing a broader description in the Abstract and the full details in the Methods section)? However, that is just my individual opinion.

      If possible, you could provide a link to code for maximum reproducibility. Am I overlooking that in the main text?

    1. On 2020-11-06 17:48:42, user Miao YU wrote:

      This paper has finally published on Communications Chemistry with title "Untargeted high-resolution paired mass distance data mining for retrieving general chemical relationships". The title changed due to the comments from peer-review. Thanks a lot for the reviewers of this paper to improve the quality.

    1. On 2020-11-06 16:09:33, user Dragana Stojković wrote:

      Atmospheric N2 (nitrogen) is transformed into NO (nitrogen monoxide) in the alveolar pericytes of the pulmonary capillaries. The SARS-CoV-2 virus also brings N2 (nitrogen) from the atmosphere to the alveolar capillary pericyte.

    1. On 2020-11-06 11:18:38, user Nabil Hajji wrote:

      Since we placed our paper in the BioRxiv we have received huge number of emails from editors of distinct journals. We are please with that, however, our paper is novel and great research story with substantial data and international collaboration. Therefore, our manuscript should be published in well respected and major journal.

    1. On 2020-11-05 20:20:35, user Tiago Ribeiro wrote:

      Very cool work! I have one question, towards the end of the discussion it written "We calculated each of those statistics from our simulated data and, as expected, the variance of each increased with recombination rate (Supplementary Figure 4)." Is that correct or is it the contrary? The FST variance is negatively correlated with recomb, and looking at the pictures I would interpret that is true for the other statistics as well.

    1. On 2020-11-05 10:58:56, user Luca Venturini wrote:

      Interesing article, thank you.

      How does SICILIAN measure against our previously published Portcullis? <br /> At a first reading the main difference seems to be the building of the model across multiple samples (portcullis performs this operation per-sample).

      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih...

    1. On 2020-11-05 08:19:08, user Rita Zhang wrote:

      Impressive work with promising drug candidates! I am really thrilled to learn about how ML100, a ketoamide inhibitor, could be a potential drug for SARS-CoV-2. Especially in the absence of an effective vaccine, it was thoughtful to investigate an antiviral drug that is safe to be administered orally for patients in an outpatient setting. I like how the methods were well designed and the experimental outcomes were neat. One suggestion I would like to make is to keep the figure representation simpler. For example, in figure 6, it would be nice if only one variable, either color or the shape of data points, changes among the plots for different groups. This would allow a more direct comparison visually. Another potential improvement could be try to address certain the variation for different experiment groups. For instance why specific cell lines are used in certain methods. Also, in figure 2b, an explanation on why different concentration of telaprevir and boceprevir was used would make this experimental setup clearer to the readers. Overall, this is a stellar paper and I look forward to read about any follow-up paper within this area.

    2. On 2020-10-30 20:55:30, user Angel Ni wrote:

      Beautiful paper! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this because of how well thought out the methods were. For example, the cell lines were very good fits for the specific experiments they were involved in. HEK293A was a model for kidney cells, Huh7 for liver cells, and Caco-2 for intestinal cells.

      I would have appreciated a figure in the introduction that outlines the role of Mpro in virus replication. After a quick search on Google, I was unable to find any descriptions that covered the mechanisms relevant to this paper in good detail. In addition, it would be nice to have a figure with the structures of all the inhibitors that were studied. This would allow easy and direct comparison.

      This paper makes a strong case for the therapeutic potential of SARSCoV2 Mpro inhibitors with ketoamide warheads and cyclic structures. I look forward to seeing further research in this area.

    1. On 2020-11-05 01:24:50, user Gyeongdeok kim wrote:

      I want to know whether the spiked mutations into normal sample(HCC1395BL) is from real tumor sample(HCC1395) or just synthetic thigs....

    1. On 2020-11-04 23:32:54, user Nataliia wrote:

      It's bad news. Now we need to look for anti-idiotypic antibodies with the same characteristics as the spike protein. Possibly it could lead to the exaggerated inflammatory responses too. What about the key to "long COVID"? In this case any spike protein based vaccine may be a nonstarter.

    1. On 2020-11-04 16:14:40, user Marie wrote:

      Peptides numbers 2, 3 and 4 give homology with Sodium-coupled neutral amino acid transporter 1 isoform X2 (ref|XP_011537088.1|) and Dynein heavy chain 2, axonemal isoform X10 (ref|XP_011521972.1|) from Homo sapiens

    1. On 2020-11-04 15:21:16, user Morgan Sobol wrote:

      Hello Grünberger et al.,

      It was stated "The efficiency of poly(A)-tailing was low."

      Do you know approximately what percentage of the total RNA could be polyadenylated?

      Thanks,<br /> Morgan

    1. On 2020-11-04 05:43:06, user som wrote:

      This paper should be fortified with following references to be visible to broader scientific community:<br /> 1. Suslick, K. S. Sonochemistry. Science 247, 1439-1445 (1990).<br /> 2. Ragazzon, G. & Prins, L. J. Energy consumption in chemical fuel-driven self-assembly. Nat. Nanotechnol. 13, 882-889 (2018). <br /> 3. Hwang, I., Mukhopadhyay, R. D. et al. Audible sound-controlled spatiotemporal patterns in out-of-equilibrium systems. Nat. Chem. (2020) (DOI: 10.1038/s41557-020-0516-2)

    1. On 2020-11-03 17:17:08, user Gerry Smith wrote:

      On 8 September 2020, this paper was accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. The accepted version differs little from the version available here.

      Gerry Smith

    1. On 2020-11-03 17:08:45, user Kristiina wrote:

      Is syntactic data on the differences between IE, Uralic and selected Altaic languages available? I would be interested in it.

    1. On 2020-11-03 00:41:10, user Fraser Lab wrote:

      Allostery is hard to comprehend because it involves many interacting residues propagating information across a protein. The Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) and Koshland, Nemethy, and Filmer (KNF) models have been a long standing framework to explain much of allostery, however recent formulations have focused on the role of the conformational ensemble and a grounding in statistical mechanics. This manuscript focuses on the functional impact of mutations and therefore contribution of the amino acids to regulation. The authors unbiased approach of combining a dose-response curve and mutational library generation let them fit every mutant to a hill equation. This approach let the authors identify the allosteric phenotype of all measured mutations! The authors found inverted phenotypes which happen in homologs of this protein but most interesting is the strange and idiosyncratic ‘Band-stop’ phenotype. The band-stop phenotype is bi-phasic that will hopefully be followed up with further studies to explain the mechanism. This manuscript is a fascinating exploration of the adaptability of allosteric landscapes with just a handful of mutations.

      Genotype-phenotype experiments allow sampling immense mutational space to study complex phenotypes such as allostery. However, a challenge with these experiments is that allostery and other complicated phenomena come from immense fitness landscapes altering different parameters of the hill equation. The authors approach of using a simple error prone pcr library combined with many ligand concentrations allowed them to sample a very large space somewhat sparsely. However, they were able to predict this data by training and using a neural net model. I think this is a clever way to fill in the gaps that are inherent to somewhat sparse sampling from error prone pcr. The experimental design of the dose response is especially elegant and a great model for how to do these experiments.

      With some small improvements for readability, this manuscript will surely find broad interest to the genotype-phenotype, protein science, allostery, structural biology, and biophysics fields.

      We were prompted to do this by Review Commons and are posting our submitted review here:

      Willow Coyote-Maestas has relevant expertise in high throughput screening, protein engineering, genotype-phenotype experiments, protein allostery, dating mining, and machine learning.

      James Fraser has expertise in structural biology, genotype-phenotype experiments, protein allostery, protein dynamics, protein evolution, etc.

    1. On 2020-11-02 20:34:19, user Marco Trabassi wrote:

      I’m not a doctor or researcher but i would like to have contact with you to show a case of tb probably activated by coronavirus that happened on my girlfriend in Italy. Please contact me at marco.trabassi@gmail.com

    1. On 2020-11-02 18:26:41, user David Klinke wrote:

      Based on a class exercise in reviewing pre-prints, students generated the following critique of this pre-print. We hope that you find these comments helpful.

      Makaryan and Finley have submitted a pre-print of work relating to a gap in the field’s understanding of possible methods to combat NK cell exhaustion by developing a computational model that describes the dynamics of GZMB and PRF1, which showed that suppression phosphatase activity maximized GZMB and PRF1 secretion, but that this method depleted intracellular pools of GZMB and PRF1. As a result, they investigated further by modifying their model with a synNotch system. They found that the optimal synNotch system is dependent on the frequency of NK cell stimulation. The ultimate goal of the work was to provide insights that could be used in clinical applications for the engineering of robust NK cells resistant to exhaustion. Although this work is of interest to the field, there are some concerns that could be addressed in the next version. These are outlined below.

      -What results did you find the most interesting and why?

      The methods presented in this paper were of particular interest to me. As a researcher new to the field of computational modeling and Bayesian frameworks such as the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, this reviewer appreciates the opportunity to read about what others are doing in the field using such methods.

      This reviewer found the results relating to the optimal synNotch system and its dependence on the number of rounds of stimulation particularly interesting. Specifically, the fact that the inhibition of SHP is not a beneficial long term strategy because of the accumulation of phospho-proteins. From the model diagram, one would think that this would be effective long term by eliminating the inhibition coming from the pSHP node, but the interdependencies make for a more interesting optimal case.

      This manuscript has the potential to open up opportunities for new work in the engineering of NK cells for use in immunotherapies, which is of particular interest in cancer research, however, this reviewer believes that there are some concerns that need to be addressed before the results can provide any actionable insight.

      Major Concerns:<br /> - Considering that there are some assumptions that have assigned some random values for type of parameters, which can be called “hyper-parameters” in the paper. This reviewer would use some hyper-parameter optimization methods for finding the best one so that the model accuracy will be improved by this way. Literally, hyper-parameter tuning is just an optimization to find the set of hyper-parameters leading to the improvement of a model. Practically, we can specify a grid of acceptable values for the specified hyperparameters. Then train a number of models pertaining to each of the different hyperparameters. Finally, select the model that performs the best from the pool of many models.

      • Regarding Figure 2, is there any assessment for accuracy of the model? What if add a test set to evaluate the performance of the model? Clearly, validation set is different from test set and it can be a part of training set, because validation set is used to build your model. It is always used for parameter selection and to keep away from overfitting in your model. If your model is non-linear that is training on a training set only, it is more likely to get highest accuracy and overfitting, then you will get very poor performance on test set. So, you choose a validation set such that it is not depends on the training set and is used for tuning the parameters of a model. Conversely, test set is going to be only used to evaluate the performance of a trained model.

      • Significant concern lies in some of the assumptions made for this model. In particular, the setting of the upper bound of the initial value of synNotch receptor based on the CHO cells modified to produce IgG is questionable. While the manuscript already points out the dissimilarities between CHO and NK cells and between the synNotch receptor and human IgG, the specific value of 10 uM, which I assume was chosen because it was the approximate average of the range from the CHO experiment, also presents problems. The results presented in Figures 4B and 4C regarding the difference between the optimal amount of R0 for the two pathways was specifically dependent on this value of 10 uM that was arbitrarily chosen. What would have happened if you had arbitrarily chosen the minimal value of 0.3 uM in that range so that it matched the initial amount of NKG2D? Or the maximum value of 20 uM which would be closer to the initial value of CD16? The importance of this upper bound in the trends presented in the results section should warrant a more sound basis for the choice of value. Other important assumptions, such as the value of the weight constant used to determine the emphasis on minimizing exogenous material versus maximizing cytolytic molecules should have some literary backing and be further explored as opposed to being chosen for simplicity.

      • This reviewer also believes this model requires further validation beyond that currently presented. At this point, all validation was done internally using a subset of the same data set used to train the model (from Srpan et. al.). A second data set, either from Srpan or preferably repeated in Finley lab should be used as validation to ensure the model is not highly specific to the single data set used, but that it can be generalized to the dynamics as a whole.

      Minor concerns:<br /> - While the manuscript overall flows well and tells a cohesive story, there were small sections when reading that information would be unclear, only to be clarified later in the paragraph or in the next paragraph. One such instance was the discussion of the Akaike information criterion for the three different models that were tested. In the beginning of the paragraph as the addition of crosstalk and synthesis/decay reactions was discussed, it was unclear that you were forming multiple models. When arriving at the sentence “Excitingly, all candidate models demonstrated a good agreement with experimental observations”, it wasn’t understood that there were multiple combinations of parameters being investigated in different models, which caused confusion. The explanation of the AIC and Table 1 at the end of the paragraph helped to provide clarity, but if a reader choses to go back in the manuscript rather than reading forward to find their answer, it may cause further confusion. It may be helpful to clarify some of these basic pieces of information throughout the manuscript to ensure understanding.

      • In addition, supplementary file S3 is not available on the BioRxiv site. As this contains all of the supplementary figures, it is important that this be available with the manuscript for optimal clarity.
    1. On 2020-11-01 19:00:58, user Prof. T. K. Wood wrote:

      It is a lot of important work showing the importance (p)ppGpp. I feel ppGpp (and cAMP to some extent) are the key for persister formation in many strains and it is great to see that for B. subtilis. The GTP part is less clear to me since some cells are probably not persisters in Fig. 2.

      For E. coli, Ab-induced and starvation-induced E. coli persisters are the same, and there is no proof of different kinds of persisters. There terms just get in the way and persisters can arise spontaneously or arise as an elegant response to a stressful world.

      L 62: I would argue that our single-cell work sheds light on the mechanism now, both on formation and resuscitation.

      L 90 & Fig. S1BC: I would argue these are not persisters as the cells are dying (rather than plateauing) except for panel G for WT + CCCP.

      L 102 & 258 & 317: this method of pretreatment to reduce ATP by CCCP was done first by us (and should be cited, as we used rif, Tet, and CCCP originally, in 2013, attached) 3 years before Conlon, et al. Great to see CCCP works with Bacillus.

      Line 317: again, we showed this 3 years before Conlon et al., that ATP depletion converts nearly 100% of an exponentially-growing E. coli population into persisters.

      L 1414 & Fig. 2d,e,f, and most likely g (need more time points for this simple experiment): not persisters since cells are dying (not bi-phasic) so I would not trust those conclusions about persistence (see “Are we really studying persister cells”).

      L 234: if they do not regrow, they may have intact membranes but are dead due to a lack of cytosol, which we found was the cause of the whole VBNC area of research.

      L 246: Of course, if we can convert nearly 100% of E. coli into persisters with a rifampicin or Tet pretreatment, we have shown Abs induce persisters. I wonder if GTP plays a role in E. coli persisters, beyond its use for translation.

      L 290 & 390: Gladys Hobby predates Bigger by 2 years and showed they were dormant before Bigger (attached).

      L 311: our 100S mechanism has added some clarity.

      L 372: Balaban used a non-toxic toxin (HipA7).

    1. On 2020-10-31 18:34:25, user pb wrote:

      Congrats! (:<br /> As you mention in the end preoccupation with "colonial language", may I suggest you don't call the Karitiana and Paiter Suruí "very isolated Amazonian populations"? It not only sound weird, but it is also not true. Their lands are also very close to big cities (Porto Velho, a capital) and major highways connecting North-South Brazil. (: <br /> I would also avoid using the word "tribe". I understand it is ok in english, but generally disencouraged in spanish and portuguese.

    1. On 2020-10-31 09:30:56, user AnonymouseReader wrote:

      Interesting paper! Although it's not clear how long non-coding is defined here. From Figure 3, it looks like at least some of the "long non-coding" isoforms start at the same start site as the mRNA transcript. Without data to show that the isoforms are nuclear-trapped and/or can not be translated by ribosomes, it could be possible that these are just shorter coding mRNA variants (that are made by either activation of cryptic promoters inside the annotated gene body, or by activation of cryptic transcription termination sites also inside the annotated gene body).

    1. On 2020-10-30 20:44:13, user Adrian Flierl ???????? wrote:

      Just came across this and having spent several years working on this, can confirm some of these data, but not all the conclusions.

      When one is talking about ANT4 (germ cells), one has to consider that the liver cells used for this study are transformed into a stem-cell like regenerative state. Hence one would expect to see ANT4 expression (similar to germ/stem cells).<br /> However, this may not be the case in adult, differentiated tissues, and it would be interesting to see if ANT4 is actually expressed in muscle cells aka myocytes or other finally differentiated cell types devoid of ANT1 and ANT2. <br /> Nevertheless, my data in myoblasts certainly support your findings in this study, as is the developmental aspect of ANT4 expression masking effects of ANT1/2 in stem cells.

      Regards,<br /> Adrian

    1. On 2020-10-30 18:54:45, user Lee Albee wrote:

      I think the model for NNA migration is partially right. I think the data would be better represented by an early entry of NNA or AOS? populations. With spread throughout North and Part of south America. When exactly is open for debate. But before the Ice free corridor opened and definitely prior to the Younger Dryas. Then with the opening of the Ice Free corridor, SSA type native American (similiar to Anzick-1 , often mis-labled as Clovis) poured into North America through the eastern Rockies,western plains and displaced and mixed with populations as they went. Disrupting genetic geographical continuity of NNA. Leaving populations in the East (People who may have become Algonquin, Ojibwe and Cree ), a group(s) in the Northwest that became heavily mixed with other Asian like populations and some SSA genetics (peoples like the Yakima and a potential early example being Kennewick), and southern western populutions ( like the Diaguita, Chilote and Chono) with heavy SSA admixture. This would would help explain why these geographically diverse groups show relatedness in Treemix and Admixture models

    1. On 2020-10-29 21:00:30, user beroe wrote:

      Amazing work! ;^)<br /> Small typo at the bottom of page 3: "only a had single public comment"<br /> What do you think about the possibility that by focusing on the 60% with a single comment, you are preselecting against those where a fruitful discussion has taken place.

    1. On 2020-10-29 00:59:12, user John Bowman wrote:

      The paper tries to make an important connection - bacterial numbers versus read numbers/proportions in a Illumina MiSeq dataset - commendable since microbiome data is often fustrating and overly descriptive due to the lack of connection to the reality of bacterial numbers and makes dataset comparisons objectively difficult. For comparison we did something similar to the paper here (see Kaur et al. 2017 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih... except in the form of bacterial communities growing on vacuum packaged red (lamb) meat. In this case we had total viable counts and also LAB counts collected over time that fitted growth models and we were confdent that the total population was fully estimated (VP lamb at -1 C is a rather constrained scenario as well).

      The LAB counts versus TVC counts were used for in silico sequenced based population estimates since we knew and had confirmed that LABs dominated the meat community (mainly Carnobacterium and Lactococcus) and so we could then use that as a guide to estimate other taxon abundances, such as Clostridium species. We only did this at the genus level since the data was more robust. Using the numbers (log TVC, log LAB, proportion of LAB reads) we were able to estimate populations in situ to a log scale over time that could be fitted to a logistic model to estimate growth rates and maximum population densities. Further estimates using qPCR could be useful but I doubt they would show anything wildly different. This approach was useful for the dominant taxa by the time you get to proportions of 1:1000 (which for VP lamb was around 4 log10 CFU/cm2) the noise is fairly high and you get situations were samples lack reads due to the sampling limits of the MiSeq process.

      Good luck with your research,

      Regards,

      John Bowman (Prof.), University of Tasmania, Tasmanian Inst of Agriculture

    1. On 2020-10-28 20:58:09, user Puddin'Head wrote:

      I'm curious if you have investigated the effects of solubility on your results. Looking at your in vitro data, you are reporting dose dependent responses up to 1 mM concentrations of the added terpenes, but a quick look at PubChem suggests that the limit of aqueous solubility for beta-pinene, for example, is ~ 36 µM at 25˚ C, while beta-caryophyllene is reported to be insoluble in water. How do you account for your reported changes in activity at doses that are well beyond the known aqueous solubility of these molecules?

      https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.ni...<br /> https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.ni...

      Given that artifacts of insolubility are known to confound a wide variety of assays in drug screening campaigns (e.g. colloid formation is known to generate false positive results), it may be worth looking into the solubility and potential colloid forming behavior of your tested terpenes. Furthermore, since the "tetrad" is composed of fairly non-specific phenomena that do not clearly correlate to any particular physiological or therapeutic outcome in humans, and the addition of 10% Tween-80 might be expected to emulsify the administered terpenes, it may be worth looking to see if the mere presence of insoluble/emulsified lipophilc material in the intraperitoneal cavity might trigger such responses.

      What were the i.p. injection volumes?

    1. On 2020-10-28 20:33:42, user Gerben wrote:

      According to data availability, the data should be available through SRA, but I can only find the ATAC-seq data and not the RNA-seq data. Are the Bioproject numbers correct?

    1. On 2020-10-28 18:45:57, user David Holcman wrote:

      The text of this paper is available for modification and reuse under <br /> the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported <br /> License and the GNU Free Documentation License. In particular, it can be used for Wikipedia.<br /> D. Holcman--the lead author.

    1. On 2020-10-28 07:55:40, user Martha Crockatt wrote:

      Hi there. Having read your article, I have a question about the control sites in the studies included in the meta-analysis. When you refer to "forest" control, is that generally productive forestry, or could it be any type? I'd like to think that most studies would use productive forestry as a control! This may seem a minor point, but I think it's important to include, to fully understand the application of your findings: if natural woodland is used as a control site, rather than managed, productive woodland, then it's unsurprising that biodiversity is higher than in AF.

    1. On 2020-10-27 15:41:27, user harleyk wrote:

      Nicely done, team. I love the practical application of using ML to decipher the most important variables for uVS. Figure 1 is hard to read. It's an important figure so I'm glad it's here, but I can't make out the numbers.

    1. On 2020-10-27 12:46:33, user Thomas Hall wrote:

      I was wondering, is there a place to access any of the supplementary information that supports this paper, and its assertion that H3K4me3 is not instructive for transcription? Without the raw and processed data, it is difficult to fully understand what the effect of H3K4me3 depletion was, given the findings you have presented in this pre print.

    1. On 2020-10-27 04:46:26, user Rocky Baker wrote:

      Great work! I currently work with ticks on the cape of Massachusetts. I am very interested in tick thermoregulation. Your article did a great job of providing excellent background, and managed to get right to the point while providing all necessary elements for understanding of concept. The first main idea was that the spread of fluid over cuticular surfaces facilitates heat exchange. The authors also concluded that the intense activity of coxal gland during feeding on cuticle structure contribute to rapid dissipation of heat stress. These conclusions were mildly supported. More graphics and photographic details needs to be presented for proper verification of a novel correlation. The figures used in the paper to describe the methodology enabled the reader to directly decipher the terminology used in the article. I do wish this article expanded more on thermoregulatory mechanisms and provided more methodological strategies for basing conclusion. Providing this would make the article more convincing. It was concluded that this exothermic species had thermoregulatory abilities however no direct mechanism or biochemical pathways are presented as evidence. This paper however is significant because it gives insight into the strategies utilized by arthropods for thermoregulation. Discover of tick thermoregulation can be used to uncover paralleled mechanisms in many other tick species. Understanding these mechanisms could help with Public health strategies. It can also elucidate tick physiology. On a scale of 5(great) to 1 (muddled), I would grade this paper a 3. It's not the best portrayal of the thermoregulation strategies of ticks but, but this paper succeeded in providing a to get a basic and logical understanding of thermoregulation. I did not find myself having to re-read any section of the paper. Many questions are produced after reading this paper. Maybe there are other evaporative cooling mechanisms used? Is urinating on itself the only thermoregulatory mechanism the tick uses? Could utilization of yeast cells be a potential tool to uncover more thermoregulatory mechanisms used in these ticks?

    1. On 2020-10-26 22:10:00, user David Ianova wrote:

      The authors write "we did not recombine any species name in the LCVP" but I can see hundreds of "comb. ined.", e.g. Silene saxosa (A.P.Khokhr.) comb.ined.<br /> Also the automated matching seems to create many errors. e.g. Melandrium gracile Tolm. (from Siberia) is listed as a synonym of Silene gracilis DC. (from the Medit.), clearly a lot more work is needed to make this scientifically defensible.

    1. On 2020-10-26 21:26:59, user Critical Dissection wrote:

      Dear Authors,

      I enjoyed reading this paper and look forward to reading future studies regarding SARS-CoV-2 and circadian rhythms. However there are certain major questions I still have. First, how was ZT(0) measured, and what environmental cue marked the beginning of the ZT(0) phase? Second, I am still puzzled about the application of Cosinor analysis as it relates to BMAL-1 & CLOCK expressions in isolated monocytes. The method is alluded to frequently and seems to play a key part in the results, however, its application is very brief and superficial. The visual data is appealing but there seems to be a lack of discussion regarding the analysis. Also, from how many healthy individuals were these monocytes isolated from? The findings are extremely interesting and relevant but I believe the analysis warrants further explanation and rigor.

    1. On 2020-10-26 19:11:32, user Critical Dissection wrote:

      Great work with the development of anuran. The application of the sponge microbiome was fascinating and exciting, but how do the advantages conferred by the anuran software translate into information relevant for microbiologists without in-depth network construction experience? I strongly recommend including more definition of the parameters used in your experiments and greater explanation of conclusions so that an even wider audience may be reached.

    2. On 2020-10-26 16:25:21, user Ian S wrote:

      This was a very interesting read, great work. The Anuran software sounds like it'll be a really useful tool for microbial network analyses. However, I am also interested in the potential drawbacks to using this program. Have you considered adding a section about limitations to the discussion? It may allow other readers to better grasp the full idea of the software.

    1. On 2020-10-26 18:36:14, user Critical Dissection wrote:

      Great, relevant study! If the structural integrity of SARS-CoV-2 particles is largely disrupted (as dramatically as what is demonstrated in your data) when exposed to temperatures as low as 34ºC, do you have any alternate explanations for the peak in new cases around mid-July? It would be interesting if this study looked into the comorbidity of other environmental factors or public health measures on the infectivity of COVID-19, especially as the largest peak of spread occurred in the summertime.

    1. On 2020-10-26 11:57:48, user Oscar Conchillo-Solé wrote:

      In the abstract it is mentioned:<br /> "It changes an arginine (R) residue to histidine (H) at position 364"<br /> and in the body text:<br /> "The impact of this spike protein R364H variant (Figure 1)"<br /> However in the Figure1: <br /> "The enlarged inset shows the location of R634H mutation (blue)"<br /> Apart from that, there is no mention to the mutation R364H in the Table1.<br /> I believe there is some kind of confusion here.<br /> In the uniprot sequence for this protein "P0DTC2" the position 364 is an Aspartic (D) while position 634 is an Arginine (R). <br /> Is it possible that the mentions to the residue 364 are errors while the correct one is 634?<br /> thank you.

    1. On 2020-10-26 11:44:57, user PlantGen Lab wrote:

      Dear authors,<br /> thank you for sharing your preprint on source-sink relationships in wild vs. cultivated rice and its impact on vegetative vs. reproductive growth. While discussing your manuscript in our journal club, we have noticed that the investigated wild species, O. australiensis, has a perennial growth habit. There are several studies describing differences in the source-sink balance between annual vs. perennial plants. Could you comment on how your presented results align with previous findings on annuals vs. perennials? In line, we were also wondering if you considered the root as major storage organ?

      We would gladly hear your view on this topic.

      Kind regards from the Plant Genetics lab at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf

    1. On 2020-10-26 09:40:48, user Debbie Yablonski wrote:

      I congratulate the authors on their work, but I have many questions, which have increased urgency, in light of the upcoming clinical test of this vaccine in Israel, and I therefore suggest that certain important details relating to safety should be publicly discussed.

      In particular, can the authors please clarify whether this recombinant vaccine is expected to replicate within vaccinated individuals? Is the live vaccine expected to spread within the community by infectious particles generated by vaccinated individuals? Given that the vaccine was allowed to "evolve" in culture, to increase its replicativity in human cells, can the authors exclude the possibility that it may continue to evolve within vaccinated human hosts, with possibly disastrous consequences? Does the vaccine include any built-in inactivation mechanism in the event that this should happen?

    1. On 2020-10-25 22:49:32, user Laura Sanchez wrote:

      Dear Geier et al, this preprint was discussed in a lab meeting and we would like to offer the following for review. Thank you for posting this very interesting manuscript. Best, The Sanchez Lab:

      The manuscript by Geier et al describes a multimodal imaging workflow that combines information across different spatial resolution scales and molecular scales. Overall this was a very interesting technique, especially the 3D rendering of the resulting information. Largely, it seems that this was an incredibly comprehensive technique to combine all the different imaging modalities which resulted in a large amount of data for mining in this proof of principle. The molecular characterization of two compounds based on METASPACE annotations was noted as being a strength. A general thought that came across was whether this combined techniques approach would be more powerful for a targeted approach rather than an untargeted approach as delineated in the manuscript. Since this is a proof of principle study, currently it is unclear if any new information regarding molecules or nematodes was uncovered. Below please find a list of major and minor critiques for the authors considerations.

      Major<br /> The figures were incredibly complex. While this is a heroic amount of data, the information and resulting interpretation was often lost in the complexity of the figures. Specifically, Figure 1B was particularly complex. Perhaps presenting the same type of information in the same panelled order throughout the manuscript would increase the readers ability to build on information. Additionally, a high level of assumed knowledge for each imaging modality slightly detracted from understanding how the information and sample processing fit together. Addition of a short list of advantages and disadvantages for each imaging modalities (or the type of information gathered) might increase the level of baseline knowledge for a generalist audience.

      The earthworm is a very specific example, the authors might consider adding a discussion of the limitations for different types of tissues that could impede broader implementation, what makes the earthworm the ideal proof of principle organism? Would this also be applicable to mice? It is unclear what types of steps might be needed or should be considered when expanding to other organisms.

      Given that the findings from the proof of principle study yield known results (known nematodes, known compounds with known biological roles) the authors might want to clearly delineate how the proposed workflow is advantageous over other given methods or a less complex use of the technologies (ie just IMS and CT or IMS and FISH).

      Could the worm have been sliced longitudinally to provide a richer coverage of the anatomy? This was slightly unclear from the experimental, the assumption being that the chemistry and anatomical features might be more consistent laterally rather than longitudinally?

      Could the authors elaborate on the order of operations more? Do they anticipate that the experiments done in another order (IMS -> FISH vs FISH-> IMS) would impact the data, could any data be impacted by using the same slide?

      The FDR is quite large for these identifications. Could the authors comment on why the standard appears to have different MS/MS fragmentation? This should be addressed in the text.

      It is unclear why exactly the authors used both MALDI-TOF MS and AP-MALDI IMS would AP-MALDI have been more appropriate from the start rather than going back and forth?

      It is unclear from the presented data how rich the IMS data actually was. Figure S3 slightly touches on this but there aren’t many ion images shown in the text and the data was not publicly available.

      Minor <br /> Acronym- SRmicroCT, what does SR stand for?

      The symbols in the chemical formulas throughout the text were odd.

      Figure S3 - What is the goal of this figure - is this a comment about ion abundance? Perhaps using the same scale to make this point more clear. Or was this more of a figure to highlight the different anatomy sections? Additional information in the figure legend might aid interpretation.

      Figure S8 had the SCiLS ion tree - is this the same as Figure 1?This might also help aid in understanding how rich the IMS data is.

      Why were specific signals shown in the paper? Were they statistically significant with SCiLS? Some classification would be beneficial for why specific ion images were shown and not others. For instance how do these signals connect to other data or the worm, more description would be helpful.

      It looks like different mass tolerances and scales were used throughout, could this be standardized or more clearly delineated throughout?

      It might be helpful to cite this paper which directly addresses concepts presented in the introduction: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih...

      The title of the paper almost sounded like software was developed rather than a workflow, it is unclear if this workflow needs a standalone name.

      Figure S7, where is the nematode?

      Related to Figure 3, where does this quadrant come from? It may be helpful to show the origin more clearly. For the microscopic image, where is the worm in the worm, what are the x/y plane (Figure 3) and xy/xz-axes (Figure S-6)?

      Some typos: Page 8 line 7 should be “allowed us to connect”, page 8 line 11 should be “identification of irregularities”, page 11 line one should be “from the nematode”.

    1. On 2020-10-25 19:42:52, user Seth wrote:

      First of all, good work! I’m not a Dengue expert, but I found this paper to be easy to follow once I had done some background research. In particular, I found the results section well-written and the figures to be quite easy to interpret. I was curious about your use of the HepG2 cells for this set of experiments. You establish that HepG2 cells are used to study Dengue and apoptosis, among other things, but I’m wondering if you plan to extend these experiments beyond cell lines to other cell types that Dengue naturally infects. My favorite part of this article was that you decided to leave in experiments that show how Dengue didn’t affect viral replication. I found this information to be just as valuable the information in Figure 4 and was glad it wasn’t shoved into any supplementary section.<br /> I did find some errors in the text of the manuscript. The sentence starting on Line 191 (“Interestingly, while staurosporine…”) seems like it’s missing a clause or comparison. It’s not a full sentence as is. Additionally, in Figure 3 it seems like the Figure subsections don’t match with the parenthetical citations. For example, Figure 3a is mentioned in text to demonstrate cell growth, but the image shown is phalloidin fluorescence microscopy for cell morphology. In the Figure 4 caption, there is no mention of Figure 4c mentioning viral titer, so there are 4 captions for 5 figures. Besides these errors, though, I enjoyed reading this paper and learning a bit about Dengue!

    1. On 2020-10-25 15:41:22, user Ruben L Gonzalez Jr wrote:

      This preprint has already been published in Nature Chemical Biology: Desai, B.J. and Gonzalez Jr., R.L. (2020) Multiplexed genomic encoding of non-canonical amino acids for labeling large complexes. Nat Chem Biol. 16, 1129-1135.

    1. On 2020-10-25 15:15:59, user Ruben L Gonzalez Jr wrote:

      This preprint has already been published in Journal of Biological Chemistry: Haizel SA, Bhardwaj U, Gonzalez Jr RL, Mitra S, and Goss DJ (2020) 5'-UTR recruitment<br /> of the translation initiation factor eIF4GI or DAP5 drives cap-independent translation<br /> of a subset of human mRNAs. J Biol Chem. 295, 11693-11706 (DOI:<br /> 10.1074/jbc.RA120.013678)

    1. On 2020-10-25 04:37:30, user Fred Wittig wrote:

      When you have a tough problem like this to untangle. Wise to consider all the possibilities and carefully understand the players in this challenge. Mr. Koenig? on a globalization website from Europe, I suspect, concluded that seeding is a very high possibility since no other virus went global like this one. Also the main player needs to get the vaccine approved no matter what they have to do. in food might be an easy way?

    1. On 2020-10-25 03:59:36, user Kumba Seddu wrote:

      Thank you very much for this relevant work. I was just curious to know why you chose MDCK and whether you expect to see the same in A549 cells (human lung epithelial cells)? This work is particularly useful at this time as influenza and COVID-19 co-infection are somehow possible. Thus if we can increase vaccine effectiveness of influenza, that is one piece of the puzzle solved already.

    1. On 2020-10-24 16:53:23, user Critcal Dissection wrote:

      Dear Authors<br /> The methodology is convincing, using sACE2 is if good way to bypass technological constraint on cell test or in vivo test. It also generates data better for quantification. In the limited framework I do not think there is no methodological error. The biggest limitation is that this paper only reflect sACE2 affinity to the different Spike protein and it is not expressed on lung tissues which is the main target for Covid-19. It is also in vitro so it does not reflect on what could happen inside human body. Thanks to your research, there is more rigorous support to actively invest in research for ACE2 interaction both in vivo and in vitro setting to combat Covid-19

    1. On 2020-10-24 16:39:52, user Johnathan Lyon wrote:

      Hi Hannah, et al.,

      Thank you for making this preprint available. I’m very glad to see more people continuing to advance the signaling understanding of electrotaxis. You actually cite my paper (Lyon, et al Sci Rep), and your work kind of mirrors the approach I used, so I was really happy to read this and see what you found! I also wanted to provide some detailed, critical feedback to help you make this paper stronger, and more accurate. Overall, it’s clear you have strong evidence that PPAR agonism impacts electrotaxis across these cells, so nothing I found would ultimately block you from publication of this novel result. I look forward to seeing any future updates/work.

      all the best,<br /> Johnathan Lyon

      Pioglitazone has some weak off-target effect on PPARa, and GW9662 will also inhibit PPARa. You may need to clarify this limitation in your discussion if you think it will have any impact on your findings. T0070907 (CAS No. 313516-66-4) would be an improved alternate antagonist that has superior selectivity.

      Side note: I too was unable to get U87MG cells to electrotax in 2D, but in 3D they were cathodally-directed. I didn’t know about the contention over U87MG origins until my studies were near completion though (https://stm.sciencemag.org/... and there may be discrepancies due to sourcing.

      You need higher-res figures (or try png instead of jpg to make the small text less garbled).

      How do you deal with the differences in media? Does this help to explain the difference in migration preference? Having or lacking competing extracellular ligands and growth factors may change the way these cells are responding directionally. FBS is rich in a variety of factors that could change the complex interplay of signals at the cell surface. One of the hypotheses from my paper is that chemical gradients are modified by the DC fields (all molecules have an isoelectric point) and that gradients of different factors mapped onto the particular spectrum of receptors on a particular cell can dictate the electrotactic response.

      Did you look at proliferation differences at all? Some hypotheses claim that cells migration and proliferation are mutually-exclusive. As the PPAR pathway has downstream effects on proliferation, this may be work a deeper look.

      I think it would be helpful to discuss the differences in effects across your cell types. From the discussion you make it sound like PPAR agonism was overall effective, however you had varying efficacy. E.g, HROG02-diff had a weak, but distinguishable effect, compared to HROG05, where it completely obliterated directionality. The fact that in most cases you’re getting no change in velocity is important (it tells me that your effect alters directionality, but not migration overall), though for HROG05-diff this may not be the case, as it seems like a loss of velocity is consistent with a loss of persistent directionality. Overall, I think it seems to impact your GSC cells more so, which could actually be attributed to the differences in media (i.e., FBS in your Diff cells may be competing).

      You should really consider using boxplots w/ replicate dots or violin plots instead of bar graphs; more and more journals are shying away from allowing bar graphs because they hide the true distribution and are harder to interpret.

      Can you please clarify why you think this “may not be clinically feasible based on the requirements for medical screening tests”? Also, it’s not clear why you mention Optune here. Are you trying to point out existing electrotherapies for cancer? You may need to look into some of Marom Bikson’s work to see if externally applied tDCS can generate sufficient fields; otherwise DBS or penetrating electrodes may be a more apt medical intervention to point to clinical feasibility.

      Please clarify when you say PI3K what isoforms you actually mean, they are all fairly distinct in their signaling effects. This is a fairly common oversight, and typically people equate PI3K to PI3K alpha, beta, and delta (class IA), however PI3K-gamma (class IB) is relevant in this case. PI3K-gamma is the culprit for the cathodal migration I observed in U87MG spheroids (this is corroborated by an earlier paper that Dr. McCaig was part of: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.... For anodal electrotaxis in DAOY, pan-PI3K inhibitors were not sufficient to stop electrotaxis. Also point of clarification, I did not use ROCK1/2 inhibition on the U87MG cells; this was an additional study I tried on just the DAOY cells to see if their anodal preference was due to a chemo-repulsive stimulus.

      Your claim “PI3K does not appear to be an efficient target to prevent…” is inaccurate based on the preceding evidence: Huang, et al., used LY294002 (PI3K a/b/d inhbitor) to decrease directed migration; I used differentiated U87MG cells and found that PI3Kg inhibition completely removed any electrotactic bias in direction (DAOY cells were not impacted, but their directionality and mechanism were different). I think you would have to show more wide-spread consensus that the effect of inhibition of each particular isoform is generalizable before you can make this claim.

      “This provides early evidence that inhibition of GBM directed cell migration reliant on electrotaxis may be targeted with drug therapies.“ Please change “early” to “additional”; my paper, the Huang paper, Fei Li’s paper, and a recent Tsai paper (https://aip.scitation.org/d..., all use pharmacological intervention to manipulate electrotaxis. You can maybe clarify this to lead to your next point: that you have shown something novel impacting electrotaxis across the differentiation spectrum.

      Two of your last discussion paragraphs (starting “Physiological EFs have been…” and “The generation of a pathological…”) feel a little disconnected from your study and feel like an extended background. Maybe pull some of this into the introduction instead, and tighten your claim about generation of a electrochemical gradient. You could alternatively connect with a pathologist/oncologist, and look at post-mortem tissue to see whether GSCs tend to be core or satellite-resident in the tumors (although, then again this could be obfuscated by heterogeneity and not knowing where the GSCs are generated/originating).

      I think your discussion is lacking two major commentaries: 1) What, mechanistically, links differentiation to differences in directionality? Is it merely the media constituents, or is there literary evidence that indicates this (i think there’s some of this at least embedded in the Huang paper on BTICs); and 2) an expanded discussion on why is PPAR relevant to electrotaxis, specifically? I.e., what are the outputs of PPAR signaling and how are changes in those relevant to directional migration? (you have pepperings of this, but it’d be great to see it more concretely linked to existing work or new hypotheses).

      It may be useful to look at this review by Michael Levin (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih... and consider whether you can connect PPAR and its impact on lipid biosynthesis, to changes in maybe mobility or expression of cell-surface-laden molecules that can alter resting membrane potential (would be interesting to see if this is different, in your diff vs. non-diff cells). This may somehow correlate to ‘metastatic potential’.

      Some of your reference links may be wrong. E.g., the Fei Li paper’s pubmed link doesn’t lead me to the right place.

    1. On 2020-10-23 22:02:43, user Rebecca, Anonymous wrote:

      The increase in SPIKE-specific antibodies and other T-cell secreted factors within the non-human primate models is promising data. All COVID research aimed at helping curve the mortality and infection rates is significant. To show how your vaccine is different from the others, the data needs multiple replicates and trials that develop a concrete argument. I know there was mention in the text about limited access to models.

      Additional information about why BAL and spleen fluids were analyzed may help more naive readers.

      This may seem like a naive question; however, is stimulation of antibodies the only way to suppress this virus in humans? Additionally, out of all the vaccine candidates, how does the scientific community "pick" the best one?

    1. On 2020-10-23 14:51:06, user Critical Dissection wrote:

      After reading this paper I wondered... Could it be that an increase in submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections may also be due to an increase in sickle cell trait within the areas you researched? Studies have shown that the presence of sickle cell trait (SCT) in young children lower overall parasite densities of infected individuals. Presence of SCT may affect some of the historically low transmission areas you mentioned as well as the average age of submicroscopic infections. Could this be incorporated as a factor for determining the reservoirs of submicroscopic infections?

    1. On 2020-10-23 11:33:00, user Giorgos Giorgakis wrote:

      This study suggests that the spike protein's fragments have a role in increased disease severity. The SARS-CoV-1 spike glycoprotein activates the nf-κΒ pathway.

      Dosch SF, Mahajan SD, Collins AR. SARS coronavirus spike protein-induced innate immune response occurs via activation of the NF-κB pathway in human monocyte

    1. On 2020-10-23 02:59:54, user Mario Aguirre wrote:

      Hi Gus. <br /> Excellent article, good job. Have you information regarding thermal shock (temperature increase for short time)applied to tilapines as virus control in Ghana?.

    1. On 2020-10-22 17:17:53, user DmitryGordenin wrote:

      This paper was published: Klimczak LJ, Randall TA, Saini N, Li J-L, Gordenin DA (2020) Similarity between mutation spectra in hypermutated genomes of rubella virus and in SARS-CoV-2 genomes accumulated during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0237689. https://doi.org/10.1371/jou...

    1. On 2020-10-22 16:40:44, user Abeer Sayeed wrote:

      Dear authors,<br /> Thank your for sharing your research. My main critique would be on your figure displaying quantification using the three assays. You argue that PCR is effective in detecting low density infections which you define as <200 parasites/ml. However, it appears that you are quantifying samples at much higher parasitemia. It would be convincing if you could include samples within the threshold of your definition of LDMI. Also, why did you normalize your qRT-PCR results to the uPCR results? Wouldn't a direct comparison be more effective in determining the efficacy of qRT-PCR? Thank you.

    1. On 2020-10-22 14:47:26, user Matthew Terry wrote:

      Very interesting paper. Would it be possible to also take into account the cost of expressing the genome? I would imagine that this would also work in favour of gene transfer. For genes retained, is protein turnover as equally important as abundance in the energy equation?

    1. On 2020-10-22 11:18:21, user pradeep wrote:

      The study and results shown in the article are encouraging steps towards the use of shRNA constructs for production of knockdown chicken with reduced lipid content in meat and egg.

    1. On 2020-10-22 08:57:56, user Carlos Alonso-Alvarez wrote:

      The definitive article is now published in Evolution journal:

      Alejandro Cantarero Rafael Mateo Pablo R Camarero Daniel Alonso Blanca Fernandez‐Eslava Carlos Alonso‐Alvarez 2020 Testing the shared‐pathway hypothesis in the carotenoid‐based coloration of red crossbills. Evolution<br /> DOI: 10.1111/evo.14073

    1. On 2020-10-22 08:36:41, user Martin R. Smith wrote:

      It's great to see such a detailed and thoughtful investigation of the role of models in this context – the possibility of even a relatively small morphological dataset supporting a more highly parameterized model is unexpected, and particularly encouraging!

      Could I make a couple of suggestions that might imbue your MDS analyses with a similarly impressive level of rigour? The 2D plots are visually striking, but it may well be worth establishing whether two dimensions are enough to meaningfully depict the true distances between trees, using a measure of stress, trustworthiness or variance explained – in my experience, two dimensions are very rarely adequate. It would be instructive to know whether the visually evident clusters are statistically supported. And the Robinson–Foulds distance is poorly suited to the construction of tree space, with the KF sharing many of these shortcomings; the quartet or clustering information distances might provide a clearer, and more representative, visualization of tree distribution.

      More thoughts on this subject are at <br /> https://ms609.github.io/Tre...<br /> and in a forthcoming manuscript, which I'd be happy to share privately.

    1. On 2020-10-21 17:00:38, user Jen Skuban wrote:

      This is amazing. I have had a theory similar to this since April, have not found any studies this close to it. This may be a long shot but since the virus does enter the body through the small intestine, could the rotavirus vaccine be the reason why kids are less affected by the virus? Since it would stimulate the immune response in the small intestine, and also because rotavirus is in the reovirus family?

    1. On 2020-10-21 01:15:29, user Jennifer Goldfarb wrote:

      I am a graduate student at Johns Hopkins and in no way an expert in this field, but I wanted to kindly offer some questions/suggestions:

      •What is the reason for ending the observation period at 14 days post infection? <br /> •Is there a justification for why 9 mice were used in the control group and 10 mice in both GABA groups? <br /> •How was breathing assessed? Specifically how is mild breathing differentiated from moderate breathing where the distinction may not be so obvious? This seems like an important measurement in the context of a disease causing lung inflammation.<br /> •How is an inactive mouse (Illness score 3) different from a lethargic mouse (Illness score 4)?<br /> •What is the p-value of statistical significance in this study? <0.05?<br /> •In the materials and methods, you refer to the 0-5 scale as an illness score, and then Figure 2 calls it’s a clinical score. Is there a reason for using two different terms?<br /> •In the results and discussion paragraph:<br /> -You say “their body weight was on average 7% below their starting weights”. And then in the following sentence you say “their body weights at 14 days post-infection were 90% of their starting weights”. It seems confusing to go back and forth between percent below starting weight and percent of starting weight.<br /> -You say “By day 6, this control group lost an average of 23% of their weights”. Looking at figure 1, it looks like the control group lost more than an average of 23% of their weights. It looks closer to 30% lost by day 6. By day 5, it looks like the control group lost an average of 23% of their weight.<br /> -You say “3/9 mice survived” and then “1/9 mice died” in a span of a few sentences. I would recommend keeping the ratios both “mice survived” or “mice died”. Going back and forth is confusing.

      Overall, really great work! I hope these comments are helpful in some way.

    1. On 2020-10-20 20:14:44, user kdrl nakle wrote:

      Poorly designed experiment. The setup facilitates air flow from infected to uninfected animal. You also have unclear and undetermined distances.

    1. On 2020-10-20 14:37:28, user Alexandre Morozov wrote:

      This is an interesting paper which argues that as the nascent protein chain exits the ribosome, it may acquire mechanical strain due to twist. This in turn may facilitate subsequent protein folding. Do most proteins fold spontaneously or require an extra twist at birth?

    1. On 2020-10-20 11:59:30, user Romain Lardy wrote:

      Thank you for this interesting paper.<br /> I have a doubt on the equation 2: Shouldn’t it be the opposite. I mean a_r / h ?

    1. On 2020-10-19 20:50:09, user Esmeralda R. wrote:

      This is a great paper!<br /> It is now published at the Nature Methods, but having known it beforehand through BioRxiv was great!<br /> That's why it is always good to have a look at the BioRxiv and MedRxiv!<br /> Grama Esmeralda

    1. On 2020-10-19 20:48:10, user John Doe wrote:

      It's awesome to know that there is a difference, but another set of control/variable using serum from patients with other viral infections would have made this even more compelling. Also, I think that a set of biostatistical tests (any, really) could have reveal much more about the dataset you have.

    1. On 2020-10-19 08:54:26, user Singh M wrote:

      The paper is well written but some of the points listed below lead to confusions about your heme memory. <br /> I'm not sure about the innate memory effects developed by heme here, because of following:<br /> - Figure 1, why TNF-a is as fold change (gives impression that only to get significance)? What about the exact levels of TNF-a (pg/mL)? What about other inflammatory mediators (showing only TNF-a and IL-6 is not enough to prove the memory effects)? None of the effects are doubled and I get the impression that these significances came probably due to high n-numbers.<br /> - Figure 1, the production of IL-10 is niether changed? Why?<br /> - You find just approximately 5% of all H3K27ac marked regions with marked increased signal? Environment effects may promote higher changes than that, does it really mean that you have here to do with innate memory?<br /> - Why so high doses (see under Suppl. files the Heme conc. goes up to 500 uM)?<br /> - Under Suppl. Fig. 1a you show that even serum of 1% may alter for 2-3 times the TNF-a levels (these effects are higher then your heme memory?)? <br /> - What about the purity of your bone-marrow cells (monocytes and neutrophils)?<br /> - What about the serum (10%) levels and its interaction with heme? Would these effects come from the serum and not heme?<br /> - What about metabolic paths (memory responses related to inflammatory status are strongly related to metabolic changes)?

    1. On 2020-10-18 23:30:06, user Emanuel Goldman wrote:

      Why are the researchers starting with such a large amount of virus inoculum (10^4)? This is much more than would be found in real life, especially in non-hospital settings. To be relevant to the real world, they should start with 2 orders of magnitude less virus.

    1. On 2020-10-18 02:14:42, user Tianhao Xu wrote:

      Great work. There are still some figures and text need to fix. One thing I want to comment on is the western blot for nuclear protein upon T cell activation. Such as NFkB, Jun and NFAT. Pipkin's Lab has already showed by increasing NaCl concentration you will find increased quantity of TFs (Runx3) that strongly bound to the chromatin. Just using regular lysis buffer and with out nuclear extraction it remains controversial on the actual nuclear NFAT levels especially those tightly bound to the chromatin. One can easily argue the contamination of cytosolic NFAT, Jun and NFkB and whether the expression level shown represents those tightly bind to Chromatin and regulates gene expression.

    1. On 2020-10-17 06:59:13, user Subhajit Biswas wrote:

      My dear friends and peers,

      I would love to receive comments from all of you on our observations.<br /> Does anybody know whether thymidine or uridine analogues have been used in clinical trials and outcome, if any?

      Please let us know.....

      For our other observations on the current SARS CoV-2 epidemic, read the following papers and related "Comments" section for further discussion and details.

      "Dengue antibodies can cross-react with SARS-CoV-2 and vice versa-Antibody detection kits can give false-positive results for both viruses in regions where both COVID-19 and Dengue co-exist"

      https://www.medrxiv.org/con...

      Best regards.<br /> Subhajit Biswas (Corresponding author)

    1. On 2020-10-17 00:16:03, user Matthew Maxwell wrote:

      Hi, Amazing package! I was wondering if Nebulosa has the ability to generate UMAP plots that are split by Seurat metadata parameters such as experimental conditions or orig.ident?

    1. On 2020-10-16 19:05:11, user Chase Mayers wrote:

      This might have already been picked up, but in Figure 4F q2, "Glomeromycotina" is included twice in the quartet! The top one should be "Mucoromycotina".

    1. On 2020-10-16 14:38:12, user Fabrice wrote:

      This manuscript was a first version.

      It has been peer-reviewed, revised and finally accepted at eLife:

      https://elifesciences.org/a...

      Publication history

      Received: January 6, 2020<br /> Accepted: August 27, 2020<br /> Accepted Manuscript published: August 27, 2020 (version 1)<br /> Version of Record published: October 14, 2020 (version 2)

    1. On 2020-10-16 10:49:18, user Inoue Akihito wrote:

      I’m so interested in this work. Can we obtain the supplementary file referred in main text. If possible, I’d like to access to experimental data or PDB data.

    1. On 2020-10-16 07:18:46, user Pablo Carbonell wrote:

      Nice tool! I think that it would be great to integrate genome-scale models and dFBA (dynamic flux balance analysis) with the fermentation model. Those models can provide a better picture about having estimates on maximum theoretical yields, performing sensitivity analysis and strain engineering.

    1. On 2020-10-15 19:36:50, user Erwin Sentausa wrote:

      Congratulations for the achievement. However, I wonder why the authors have declared no competing interest while apparently all of them are employees of the companies that are developing this vaccine.

    1. On 2020-10-14 16:55:32, user Eliane Oliveira-Barros wrote:

      Dear Authors,

      I am very impressed with your research work and feel that your innovative work added value to the existing literature and will help other researchers to frame their future projects.

      I don't know if you have had access to the work I've been developing about cellular and molecular biology of the brain prostate cancer metastasis ("The reciprocal interactions between astrocytes and prostate cancer cells represent an early event associated with brain metastasis" - doi: 10.1007 / s10585 -014-9640-y and "Malignant invasion of the central nervous system: the hidden face of a poorly understood outcome of prostate cancer" - doi: 10.1007 / s00345-018-2392-6). Particularly, in this last paper, a review, we propose a hypothesis to explain the occurrence of metastatic brain injuries from prostate cancer that is confirmed by your beautiful work. If it were of your interest, take a look at the works.

      Best regards, Eliane.

    1. On 2020-10-14 13:10:38, user Brian wrote:

      In your methods, you note using 4 ul of collagenase I, however the catalog number provided refers to a solid. Could you provide the concentration of the stock solution you used?

    1. On 2020-10-13 20:38:03, user Yosi Shamay wrote:

      Thank you for the very interesting findings. I was wondering about the healthcare workers with negative serum antibodies but positive IgA nasal antibodies. Can they serve as a barrier for the virus? and if so, doesn't this mean we should check those antibodies in the broad community instead of serum to know how many people were exposed or have some immunity?

    1. On 2020-10-13 13:26:51, user Aleksander M wrote:

      PPanGGOLiN is a great tool!

      We used a somewhat similar methodology to estimate the genome variability profile using the graph representation of genes neighbourhood (https://gcb.rcpcm.org).

      It still remains a mystery why hotspots are located where they are. And what determines their lifetime.

      Best regards,<br /> Alexander Manolov

    1. On 2020-10-13 07:28:47, user Tony Hillier wrote:

      Is the cause of H.pylori a factor in choice of best treatment please? ie whether bacteria or anti-inflammatory drugs caused?

      Friend in Kenya has it and considering kefir treatment.

      Thanks

      Tony UK

    1. On 2020-10-12 18:23:42, user Melimelo wrote:

      Interesting article. What are the implications for prevention and self-care - should we not gargle with warm salt water? reduce sodium consumption?

    1. On 2020-10-11 16:09:31, user Judy L wrote:

      Interesting work! I'm wondering if MYb238 should be MYb57? Can't find MYb238 in experimental microbiome derived from C. elegans (Dirksen et al. 2016).

    1. On 2020-10-11 13:09:33, user Ed Emmott wrote:

      I like the vast majority of this paper - some of which is consistent with our findings from SARS-CoV-2 infected cells (https://www.biorxiv.org/con... e.g. N cleavage at R209/M210. While I fully agree with the authors (and consider it likely) that N proteolysis may play a role in antibody evasion, this is a claim made very prominently in the paper title, which the current analysis performed with a single artificial monoclonal antibody is not sufficient to assess. If the authors have the ability to test this with a panel of SARS-CoV-2 +/- patient sera, the authors current reagents covering the various proteoforms offer a very powerful way to validate this claim. Best, Ed

    1. On 2020-10-11 08:11:10, user Marta Nabais wrote:

      This is an interesting and relevant paper by Battram et al, exploring the correlation structure between DNA methylation probes from Illumina 450K array, to estimate proportion of phenotypic variance explained across all sites. It is a useful study to provide evidence for which traits EWAS will likely yield successful identification of associated DNA methylation sites, albeit conclusions are possibly still very limited by sample size.

      As pointed out by the authors, since DNA methylation is a reversible process and this was done using a prospective study design, the inference of association cannot be through causality (as it is in the case of GWAS data, due to SNPs surveyed being in LD with causal variants). Thus, would it perhaps be best to re-name the EWAS-heritability estimates, to avoid driving the reader into thinking this term is comparable with the SNP-heritability term? For example, Futao et al, who recently developed a REML method for 'omics data (including DNA methylation), used rho2 to refer to proportion of phenotypic variance explained by DNA methylation sites. https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-019-1718-z

    1. On 2020-10-10 15:55:23, user Gustavo Stolovitzky wrote:

      Please note there is a discrepancy in the accuracy of the synergy prediction algorithm reported in this preprint (AUC=0.84) and the accuracy reported in the now published paper (AUC=0.77)(https://elifesciences.org/a... ). The correct accuracy is AUC=0.77 as reported in the published version.

    1. On 2020-10-10 12:49:58, user Tobias Aurelius Knoch wrote:

      We would like to point the readers of this manuscript to the following list of some publications for consideration of its background and importance = as well as in respect to what was not cited in the above manuscript although it agrees again with the following (incomplete) list; also for the authors of the below works…

      Dynamic properties of independent chromatin domains measured by correlation spectroscopy in living cells.<br /> Wachsmuth M, Knoch TA, Rippe K. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016 Dec 24;9:57. doi: 10.1186/s13072-016-0093-1. eCollection 2016.

      The detailed 3D multi-loop aggregate/rosette chromatin architecture and functional dynamic organization of the human and mouse genomes.<br /> Knoch TA, Wachsmuth M, Kepper N, Lesnussa M, Abuseiris A, Ali Imam AM, Kolovos P, Zuin J, Kockx CEM, Brouwer RWW, van de Werken HJG, van IJcken WFJ, Wendt KS, Grosveld FG. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016 Dec 24;9:58. doi: 10.1186/s13072-016-0089-x. eCollection 2016.

      Counting nucleosomes in living cells with a combination of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and confocal imaging.<br /> Weidemann T, Wachsmuth M, Knoch TA, Müller G, Waldeck W, Langowski J.J Mol Biol. 2003 Nov 21;334(2):229-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.08.063.PMID: 14607115

      Trichostatin A-induced histone acetylation causes decondensation of interphase chromatin.<br /> Tóth KF, Knoch TA, Wachsmuth M, Frank-Stöhr M, Stöhr M, Bacher CP, Müller G, Rippe K.<br /> J Cell Sci. 2004 Aug 15;117(Pt 18):4277-87. doi: 10.1242/jcs.01293. Epub 2004 Aug 3.

      A consistent systems mechanics model of the 3D architecture of genomes. Knoch TA, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89836, in Chromatin and Epigenetics, editors C. Logie and T. A. Knoch, IntechOpen, ISBN 9781789844924, 1-27, 2019.

    1. On 2020-10-09 19:44:54, user Whitney Hansen wrote:

      At the stage where the authors share code on how to utilize the list column feature to make a column for each home range estimator, and using the "map" function applied to the "data" list column, I received an error that "hr_mcp" could not be applied to a tibble object. I had to first perform a mutation where I generated a new list column of tracks (i.e. <br /> dat1<- dat1 %>%<br /> mutate(<br /> track = map(data, ~ mk_track(., x, y, timestamp, <br /> crs = crs, order_by_ts = TRUE))<br /> )

      Then I was able to proceed with homerange estimation.

    1. On 2020-10-09 19:37:58, user Sougat Misra wrote:

      Response from the first author: Misra et al. 2019 (Ref: 24)

      The authors in this study state that in Misra et al., "the culture was only maintained for 96 hours and increasing levels of tissue death were observed from as early as 24 hours of culture". Although, it is technically correct, we reported the that median cell-death never exceeded more than ~6% while combining results from 12 patient samples, which is very modest when compared to what had been reported earlier for tissue slice culture. We developed our model system such that no anti-inflammatory agents were used despite prior knowledge that inflammation could elicits cell death. During our early work, we also noticed that small tissue pieces do very well in terms of viability. In our study, we used much bigger slices in an attempt to recapitulate all the constituents of tumor microenvironment in the organotypic slice culture in a larger dimension to facilitate effect evaluation.

      Nevertheless, this study by Kokkinos et al., is an important contribution to the field such that we need diverse and relevant model systems that will aid in developing new therapeutics for pancreatic cancer treatment.

    1. On 2020-10-09 17:27:26, user Susan Hepp wrote:

      This pre-review was done as part of Peer Review Week’s Preprint Review Challenge (hosted by ASAPBio).<br /> Please see https://peerreviewweek.word... and https://asapbio.org/preprin... for more details.

      Note that participants are not academic editors or invited reviewers for any particular journal, and the purpose of this pre-review is to provide feedback from the scientific community, not to recommend acceptance or rejection from a scientific publication.

      Review Date<br /> 9.22.2020

      Review Contributors<br /> Susan Hepp (PLOS ONE Editor, Review Facilitator) shepp@plos.org <br /> Harry Porter (PLOS) hporter@plos.org<br /> Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS Open Research manager) lcadwallader@plos.org<br /> Perrine Lasserre (PhD student in Biomedical Engineering - University of Strathclyde) perrine.lasserre@strath.ac.uk

      Review

      Loes and colleagues generate a live attenuated influenza virus-based SARS-CoV-2 proof-of-concept vaccine candidate, containing the membrane-anchored receptor binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The authors show that a single dose administered to mice intranasally results in serum neutralizing antibody titers within 2-3 weeks of inoculation without causing disease. This is an important contribution to research on the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, as existing infrastructure used to generate flu vaccines are already in place and could be used for the rapid large-scale production of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 using the authors’ platform. In addition, it raises the exciting possibility of generating a dual influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.

      We had no major concerns about the work.

      Strengths of the work:

      Title and Abstract:<br /> The authors provide a good overview of what they did in their abstract, and their title is descriptive and specific. The title states that the work is performed in mice which is appropriate and does not mislead potential readers skimming titles into thinking that this is a human study.

      Introduction:<br /> It is quite succinct, but given that the work is describing a platform that is new, this is appropriate and not surprising. The appropriate amount of background is given to understand the rest of the manuscript, and it is well focused. We appreciated that it doesn’t include information that is going to be out of date soon, such as statistics about how many deaths have been reported from COVID-19.

      Methods and Data: <br /> Overall, techniques used in the study were adequate to test the authors’ hypotheses and are reported satisfactorily. The authors use standard techniques to measure viral titer in cell culture (TCID50) and to determine Spike protein RBD surface expression in cells (Infection/transfection, staining, Flow cytometry). The viruses used in the study are generated in standard and up-to-date ways.

      The authors perform appropriate control experiments (e.g., confirm surface expression in cells, confirm that constructs integrated into their recombinant viruses are stable) and test appropriate control viruses (ΔNA, ΔNA(GFP), WT).

      The work appears to meet animal ethics standards. The authors state that they have IACUC approval in the methods. An appropriate method of anaesthesia is used.

      Results: <br /> Major points :

      We found that the results support the authors’ conclusions.

      All control experiments and control samples support the validity of the work.

      We appreciated that the authors sequenced HA from the viruses and documented the adaptive mutations for growth in cell culture.

      All results and data are clearly laid out in the figures and are easy to interpret.

      We appreciated that the authors included the additional neutralization curves in the supplementary figure.

      Discussion: <br /> The authors place their work into the context of knowledge in the field very clearly. They also provide a sufficient discussion of study limitations.

      The authors have also done a commendable job with making their data available to the research community. They provide supplementary files of plasmid sequences and have also provided a github link for their python packages.

      Minor constructive points:

      Introduction and abstract:<br /> Minor typo is made that reads “SAR-Cov-2” instead of “SARS-CoV-2”

      Methods and Data:<br /> There are quite a few long construct, cell, etc. names that make the manuscript difficult to read at times. We would suggest coming up with colloquial terms to use in the manuscript after the technical names are presented.

      Virus neutralization assay descriptions could benefit from additional details, however the authors do cite appropriate protocols. Authors may consider describing the neutralization assay components and methodology in greater detail.

      It would be useful to have a note in the methods to explain why a co-culture of cells is used to generate the viruses.

      We note that only 4 mice per treatment group are used in the animal study. However, as this is more of a preliminary proof-of-concept paper, it is appropriate to use as few mice as reasonably possible. Further studies should use a higher number of animals.

      No specific section on statistics is included in the manuscript. Authors should describe how statistical significance was determined, and/or whether the authors chose to use descriptive language instead because of their small sample size.

      For animal ethics reporting, authors should explicitly report the method of euthanasia used. Since there is IACUC approval, the method is most likely appropriate, but this should still be described. Authors also describe the animal welfare checks that they performed in their results, but for clarity should also state these in the methods section.

      A figure in the supplementary materials outlining virus generation would be useful to readers who do not have a background in these methods.

      Are cell lines from a commercial source, or were they verified if they were not from a commercial source? Source and catalogue numbers (if applicable) for all cell lines should be provided.

      Citations are provided for neutralization assay methods, however more details on how the system works would be useful in understanding the results. For example, luciferase readout comes from what?<br /> A citation for the CR3022 antibody should be included if one exists. <br /> Dilutions used for the primary staining reagents for flow cytometry should be given. <br /> It may be good to have a more permanent link to the neutcurve python package, but it is adequate that they have a github link to it.

      Results:<br /> Figure 1: Use of abbreviation n.d. is slightly unclear at first glance, as we immediately thought this meant not determined. However, the legend clarifies that it means not detected. May consider a clearer label.<br /> Figure 2: Is the transfection using the construct containing SARS-CoV-2 full spike protein lacking the last 21 AA membrane anchored or not? Is this a control for expressed Spike/RBD protein that is not membrane bound? This should be clarified. <br /> Figure 3: In Fig. 3B, it is difficult to differentiate between some lines. Where are GFP and Mock?<br /> Discussion:<br /> For study limitations, authors should mention small sample size of mice.<br /> COI:<br /> Authors are listed as inventors on a provisional patent application based on the studies presented in this paper. However, we do not see this as a major concern.