nextstrain/ncov

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1363 stars · 408 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Nextstrain build pipeline that analyzes SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes to understand their evolution and spread, producing phylogenetic visualizations published at nextstrain.org/ncov. It is a Snakemake-based workflow written in Python that ingests genome data (e.g., from GISAID) and runs quality control, alignment, tree building, and clade assignment.

Use cases

• build a phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes
• track how covid virus variants evolve and spread
• run a nextstrain pipeline for viral genome data
• assign clades to my own coronavirus sequences
• visualize viral genome phylogeny over time
• reproduce the nextstrain ncov builds locally

When to choose

• you need a ready-made, maintained pipeline for SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology
• you want to reproduce or extend the public nextstrain.org/ncov builds
• you have GISAID or other genome data and want phylogenetic and temporal analysis

When to avoid

• you need pathogen-agnostic phylogenetics for non-SARS-CoV-2 organisms (use nextstrain's other pathogen builds or augur directly)
• you want a simple GUI tool rather than a command-line workflow
• you lack access to genome sequence data such as GISAID downloads

Facets

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data-science data-visualization etl workflow-automation bioinformatics data-science data-visualization python cli nextstrain sars-cov-2 phylogenetics genomics epidemiology viral-evolution gisaid bioinformatics-pipeline linux macos docker

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