How did you learn Nextstrain when starting from zero?

Help and Getting Started
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Hi everyone,

I am new here and recently started exploring Nextstrain.

I don’t have much experience with phylogenetics, so sometimes the documentation feels a little hard for me. I can follow some parts, but then I get confused about how everything connects together.

I wanted to ask people who are already using Nextstrain.

How did you learn it when you first started? Did you just read the docs, or did you follow any tutorial or practice project?

I would really like to hear what worked for you.

Thanks!

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Hi Joze, yeah I came to it with no experience on this topic and it was a bit of a struggle.

It would probably help if you could describe what you are trying to do with it, as there are many possible scenarios.

My objective was a pipeline to push SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data (.fasta files) through the Nextclade CLI to get it’s classifications and mutations output (as .tsv files).

I shared this project, with what I came up with: