Access to mutational information?

[afmagee42]

Especially for future automatic aggregation purposes, it would be nice to be able to access something like genetic distances or imputed mutations on branches of the taxonomy tree.

• Possibly from https://next.nextstrain.org/nextclade/sars-cov-2 if we can figure out how to align on recombinants.
• Some "type" specimen (or first sequence with a label) plus parsimony counting could work.
• Interfacing with a more real-data phylogeny would be potentially nice, but would likely only work if we could turn that into a taxonomy tree directly and only if we used it (otherwise we're matching branches awkwardly).

[afmagee42]

(Kudos to CDPHE folks for pointing this out.)