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nextstrain / auspice

Web app for visualizing pathogen evolution
https://docs.nextstrain.org/projects/auspice/
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Support multiple tip labels #1369

Open huddlej opened 3 years ago

huddlej commented 3 years ago

Would it be possible to support multiple tip labels? For example, users who drag and drop their metadata with PII and are investigating a specific subtree may be interested in simultaneously viewing tip details like collection date, jurisdiction, county, etc.

These annotations would be helpful for real-time genomic epidemiology with local health departments.

jameshadfield commented 3 years ago

@huddlej is the issue that metadata added via drag&drop isn't available as an option for "tip label", or that you wish to select multiple metadata fields as tip labels (e.g. "country" + "division") and have them display as, e.g. "USA WA"?

(If it's the latter, then a no-changes-to-auspice-needed solution would be to create a single column in the drag & dropped metadata which contains a number of fields joined together. Be aware that our rendering of long tip labels is not great.)

huddlej commented 3 years ago

It's the second case ("country" + "division"). In this specific case, creating custom columns in Excel is still a difficult task for this user group. I don't know that this is a high priority issue compared to other issues though.