There are shit media articles about this (same?) data reappearing, but in too-crappy sources (like the NY Times) for me to link.
I have neither the skill nor the enthusiasm to determine if the data has been changed. From reading shit MSM articles, the claim is that it hasn't been changed.
OK, this is 100% corrupt.
By absolute chance, a researcher (by guessing characters in a URL, luckily in sequence) was able to recover this data.
He stored a copy of the data here (0.5 MB):
https://web.archive.org/web/20210502130820/https://storage.googleapis.com/nih-sequence-read-archive/run/SRR11313485/SRR11313485
https://storage.googleapis.com/nih-sequence-read-archive/run/SRR11313485/SRR11313485
The article about him being able to guess where the data was, is here:
another
About a month back, after the above articles were published, the same (?) data was uploaded to a different data store
ftp://download.big.ac.cn/gsa/CRA004499
https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/search/?dbId=gsa&q=CRA004499
There are shit media articles about this (same?) data reappearing, but in too-crappy sources (like the NY Times) for me to link.
I have neither the skill nor the enthusiasm to determine if the data has been changed. From reading shit MSM articles, the claim is that it hasn't been changed.
Note: the chain of custody has been broken: we have no way of knowing if this data has been fucked with.