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Intro TODO - auto-update genome sequence number #616

Open cgreene opened 4 years ago

cgreene commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have a static number of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with a date: "There is an ongoing effort to collect SARS-CoV-2 genomes throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, and as of August 7, 2020, more than 78,000 genome sequences have been collected from patients."

Describe the solution you'd like

This seems like a good candidate for auto-updating the count.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Not auto-updating the count.

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agitter commented 4 years ago

@Sergey-Knyazev added this text in #577

@Sergey-Knyazev, could you please tell us the data source for the number of SARS-CoV-2 genomes? Is it the home page of https://www.gisaid.org/?

If that is the source, do you know a machine-readable way to download the latest number? If this part of the home page is stable, we could possibly scrape the HTML: image

We'd have to check the GISAID attribute requirements.