# Does NextStrain recognize emerging clade 20B/S.484K

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**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://nextstrain.discourse.group/t/does-nextstrain-recognize-emerging-clade-20b-s-484k/320/1 "2021-02-02T13:51:47Z")

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Hi NextStrain team,

I’m wondering if NextStrain includes any clade that is roughly synonymous to pangolin P.2 (with E484, seen in Brazil)?

On the [covariants](https://covariants.org/variants/S.E484) website, I saw a reference to “20B/S.484K”. As I understand the NextStrain naming strategy, this would be an “emerging clade”. However, when I run one of these genomes on NextClade, I get “20B” as the result. I checked the reference given by Covariants for this genotype, and confirmed that they were P.2 strains on GISAID. So I have two questions:

1. Does NextStrain include this in its ‘emerging clade’ definitions?
2. Are there any websites/tools report emerging clades? (it seems that NextClade and GISAID both report just the major clade – 20B)

Thanks  
Adam