Recently CNN.co.jp reported the following:
米情報機関、武漢研究所の膨大な遺伝子データを調査 コロナ起源解明で
CNN EXCLUSIVE
2021.08.06 Fri posted at 10:58 JST
ワシントン(CNN) 米国の情報機関が、中国・武漢の研究所で扱われていたウイルス試料の遺伝子情報を含む膨大なデータを入手し、調査を進めていることが分かった。事情に詳しい複数の情報筋が明らかにした。一部の当局者はこの研究所について、新型コロナウイルスの流行の発生源になった可能性があるとの見方を示している。
米情報機関がいつ、どのようにしてこれらの情報を入手したのかは不明。ただ、この種の遺伝子データの生成や処理に使われる機器は通常、外部のクラウドベースのサーバーに接続されており、ハッキングの可能性もあるという。
マンパワーの問題もある。調査にかかわる政府の研究者は複雑な遺伝子配列データを解釈できるスキルや、機密取り扱い資格だけでなく、標準中国語を話す能力も必要になる。これらの情報は中国語で専門用語を使って書かれているためだ。
米政府内外の調査員は以前から、武漢ウイルス研究所で扱われていた2万2000のウイルス試料の遺伝子データを入手しようとしてきた。このデータは2019年9月に中国当局者によってインターネットから削除され、以降、中国は初期のコロナ症例に関する生データを世界保健機関(WHO)や米国に提出するのを拒んでいる。
Translation
Washington (CNN) - It had been revealed that a US intelligence
agency had obtained a huge amount of data including genetic information of
virus samples handled at a laboratory in Wuhan of China and was proceeding with
an investigation. Several sources familiar with the matter revealed this. Some
officials said this institute could be s source of the new coronavirus epidemic.
It was unknown when or how the US intelligence agency obtained this information. However, the equipment used to generate and process this type of genetic data was usually connected to an external Cloud-based server which could be hacked.
The task of converting a vast amount of raw data into usable information involved a variety of difficulties. Since it was necessary to secure the computing power to process all data, all intelligence agencies would use the supercomputer in the National Laboratories under the Ministry of Energy.
There was also the problem of manpower. Government researchers involved in this study needed skills to interpret complex gene sequence data, meeting confidentiality qualifications as well as with the ability to speak Mandarin Chinese. This was because the information was written in Chinese using technical terms.
The US authorities were currently conducting a 90-day verification work on the origin of the new coronavirus. Officials involved in the verification work hoped that this information could help clarify how the new coronavirus was transmitted from animals to humans. It was essential to clarify this point in order to determine whether the new coronavirus was leaked from the laboratory or transmitted from wild animals to humans.
Investigators inside and outside the US government had long sought to obtain genetic data for 22,000 virus samples handled by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This data was deleted from the Internet by Chinese officials in September 2019, and since then China had refused to submit raw data on early corona cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) or the United States.
So, the
US is trying to know whether the virus could come from the Wuhan Institute of
Virology. I think many people are also eager to know the outcome of this
project.
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