Finally, CoV-Spectrum is meeting trees 🌳 – this week, we released a new feature to browse the SARS-CoV-2 UShER tree on CoV-Spectrum. With the new feature, you can see a subtree of your variant of interest. 1/4

GenSpectrum just added a mpox dashboard using data from @Pathoplexus – see genspectrum.org

We also offer a Loculus instance with H5N1 and RSV data from INSDC for accessing the data. You can find both aligned and unaligned sequences and lineage annotations. For H5N1, the sequences from different segments have been linked together. loculus.genspectrum.org 3/5

In the "Analyze a single variant" view, you can query a variant by lineage and mutations and see its spatio-temporal distributions and mutations (over time). The "Sequencing efforts" view displays the number of sequences, their geographic origins and the contributors 2/5

Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5

CoV-Spectrum now uses the most recent Nextclade dataset and calls BA.2.86. cov-spectrum.org/explore/Wor…

Now, it’s your turn: please try it out and share your feedback with us! We would be grateful if you allow the conversations to be recorded: only if we know which questions you are interested in and how you phrase the questions, we can improve. You can rate the answers. 9/

What about non-human samples? Which are the other hosts? Note: When we first asked about minks, it looked for Mustela vision and couldn’t find anything. If we, however, specify the alternative name, Neovison vison, we get the right results. 5/

Many people wished to be able to search for a continent without a country (e.g. @siamosolocani and @CorneliusRoemer). That is unfortunately not yet possible in the dashboard – but no problem for the chat! 4/

Let’s find out more about XBB.1.16. Which mutations does it have, when and where was it first observed, how many sequences where uploaded over time? 3/