“…The number of novel viruses discovered needed for a high-profile paper has increased by logarithms (Krishnamurthy et al, 2016;Shi et al, 2016). In the absence of particular phenotypic data or wet-lab viral characterization, many authors have turned to Genome Announcements, biorxiv, or simply uploading to Genbank with extra metadata, figuring that sequencing is the most likely future method of both detection and discovery (Debat, 2017;Greninger and DeRisi, 2015e,f;Karamendin et al, 2016;Sharman et al, 2016;Sparks et al, 2013). Given the glut of new viruses, expansion of sequencing, and the time it takes to publish, scientists may be more likely to align to your novel virus rather than read about it in a journal and decide to screen for it.…”