How to deal with samples with way too many mutations

[PatrickSSte]

Hi both, did you see my suggestion?

Trends in the prevalence of "private mutations"

Hi All. I have an interest in the evolution of respiratory viruses - my co-author and I published a review article in Reviews in Medical Virology last year. I have a question about the SARS-CoV-2 strains that are excluded from Nextstrain because they have too many private mutations. I’m interested to know if the proportion of excluded strains increases during surges in C-19, and whether it decreases in the lulls. The reason I’m interested in this is explained in the thread below - originally…

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