US struggling to translate a trove of data on the Chicom virus

 Legal Insurrection:

Reports indicate that U.S. intelligence agencies have unlocked “a treasure trove” of genetic data on the viruses being studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which timeline analysis suggests is the point source of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The information could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus.

This giant catalog of information contains genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied at the lab in Wuhan, China which some officials believe may have been the source of the Covid-19 outbreak, multiple people familiar with the matter tell CNN.

It’s unclear exactly how or when US intelligence agencies gained access to the information, but the machines involved in creating and processing this kind of genetic data from viruses are typically connected to external cloud-based servers — leaving open the possibility they were hacked, sources said.

Still, translating this mountain of raw data into usable information — which is only one part of the intelligence community’s 90-day push to uncover the pandemic’s origins — presents a range of challenges, including harnessing enough computing power to process it all. To do that, intelligence agencies are relying on supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Labs, a collection of 17 elite government research institutions.

The hard part is translating all the information. Not only is the material in complex biological terms, but everything is in Chinese.

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Even the supercomputers are struggling to work their way through the huge data files.