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The newly reported SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.529 made the headlines last week. On Friday then, the WHO declared the lineage a variant of concern (VOC) asking countries to, among other things, enhance surveillance and sequencing efforts to better understand circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants. For several months, the Galaxy Project has kept running a free, public genome surveillance program based on raw sequencing data deposited in the public databases of the ENA and the SRA. Among the countries we ha...