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During outbreaks of emerging diseases such as COVID-19, efficiently collecting, sharing, and integrating data is critical to scientific research. outbreak.info is a resource to aggregate all this information into a single location.
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LineageComparison Component autocorrecting to the * version #621

Closed flaneuse closed 1 year ago

flaneuse commented 1 year ago

Steps to recreate

  1. On https://outbreak.info/compare-lineages: click "Change Lineages"
  2. In Box 3, select "XBB.1.5"
  3. This will then add XBB.1.5* [Omicron (XBB.1.5.X)], when it should have added XBB.1.5.

Desired behavior

Why is this happening?

XBB.1.5 represents the Pango lineage XBB.1.5, whereas XBB.1.5* represents XBB.1.5 and all its descendants (lineages which have evolved from XBB.1.5). Right now, there's not a way to query this information on the API (yet), so we do a front-end lookup to lookup the sublineages associated with a small set of curated lineages. The front-end searches in CURATED_LINEAGES if there's a match, and then translates the name and query to be a OR query of all the sublineages.

This works, but should not be applied when the user asks explicitly for just that lineage.

For testing

I would use BQ.1 (1 lineage) vs. BQ.1* (should be ~ 80 lineages)

leandrocollares commented 1 year ago

The issue was fixed via PR #608.