When trying to display COVID variants using emerging lineage, most of them are “unassigned”
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/asia?c=emerging_lineage&d=frequencies
Hello! This is not an error. Unassigned simply means not belonging to a curated emerging lineage.
Emerging lineages are chosen in a soft way by the Nextstrain team based on preliminary growth rates and potential mutations of interest. They do not include all potential lineages of interest nor are emerging lineages necessarily going to sweep like Delta did.
We are considering whether to make emerging lineages a superset of all Nextstrain clades to make sure that there is no unassigned.
