Scientists discover virus with no recognizable genes
TIL discovering viral novelty is common:<p>> Viral novelty doesn’t surprise Elodie Ghedin of New York University, who looks for viruses in wastewater and in respiratory systems. More than 95% of the viruses in sewage data have “no matches to reference genomes [in databases],” she says. Like Abrahão, she says, “We seem to be discovering new viruses all the time.”<p>You don't know what you don't know, I guess.  That also means there is an invaluable wealth of genetic knowledge out there that we haven't recorded yet.  I can't wait to see what insights are revealed once we've catalogued that missing 95%.