lineage notes curation

[RaphaelRaphael]

Proposition of curation of lineage_notes.txt file (formating issues etc... )

lineage_notes.txt

[ciscorucinski]

@RaphaelRaphael I just quickly created this branch to see the changes more easily. Having a standard format would be much easier! However, there were a few instances where replacing US with USA caused unintended results. I seen the following...

• Mauritius became MauritiUSA
• plus became plUSA
• previous became previoUSA

Oh, and there are 2 separate repositories where the issues are located in. cov-lineages/pango-designation and sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-proposals

[KatSteinke]

Might I pop in with a suggestion while you're at it? Most lineage aliases have "Alias of [full lineage]" in their descriptions, but I've stumbled over a handful of lineage aliases in the newest lineage notes (specifically HF.1 and sublineages) that just state the full designation of "XBB.1.16.13.1" (etc) with no "Alias of" - I don't think that's in your set yet, though? I think it'd be helpful to have a unified format for that - for example, I have a script that parses the notes and relies on the "alias" part to be there (to differentiate from lineages named in other contexts such as "recombinant of [lineage] and [lineage]"). What do you think?

[ciscorucinski]

Thank you for bringing that up. Usually the missing "Alias of" does get fixed, but they can easily be missed for some time. This will have to be fixed, too.

[DailyCovidCases]

Please close this issue