Dr. Richard Moulange
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And this is called metagenomic surveillance.
And the reason it's metagenomic is they're looking over many different kinds of genomes.
They are ambivalent to, they're not just looking at just viral genomes, they're looking at viruses, bacteria, fungi, and lots of other things all at once.
And explicitly, they're trying to spot things that we may have never seen before.
And the reason this is important is this is going to be one of our top defenses against engineered pandemics, because we have ways to spot smallpox, the known smallpox genome.
It's on the internet.
We know what that looks like.
But being able to spot fragments of something
that is in fact engineered that's different from anything the world has seen before, especially when it's sort of broken up.
It's not just going to be a complete genome.
It's not going to be a whole bacterium floating around.
It's just going to be a little bit.
That's going to be really important to defend against people who might try and deploy engineered pandemics, which is what we've been talking about.
And this is in fact linked to attribution.
So attribution is the ability to say,
hey, this thing was engineered versus wasn't.
And in fact, it was engineered by them.
And this is, I believe, very important for deterrence.
Because if you can say to a state or a non-state, if you know who has done it, then you can punish them.
Then you can offer retribution.
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