cov-lineages/pango-designation resource

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

The authoritative repository maintaining Pango lineage designations for SARS-CoV-2, hosting the lineage description list, sequence designation list, and alias key. New lineages are proposed via GitHub issues and reviewed by the Pango designation committee.

Use cases

• look up which mutations define a SARS-CoV-2 variant lineage
• resolve Pango lineage aliases to full names
• suggest a new coronavirus variant lineage for designation
• download the latest lineage designation data for phylogenetic analysis
• check whether a genome sequence has been assigned to a Pango lineage

When to choose

• you need the canonical, up-to-date Pango lineage designations for SARS-CoV-2
• you are building tools like pangoLEARN or scorpio that consume lineage data
• you want to propose or track new variant lineage designations

When to avoid

• you need lineage designations for pathogens other than SARS-CoV-2
• you want a software library rather than curated data files
• you need historical variant data frozen at a specific date

Facets

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data-generation documentation bioinformatics healthcare data-science python cross-platform pango-lineages sars-cov-2 genomics viral-variants gisaid phylogenetics nomenclature

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