Alpha rarefaction plotting and sampling (i.e. rarefaction) depth are difficult to understand?

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi @khaknasheen,
This is a duplicate of this question:

Can someone help in Alpha rarefaction plotting depths?

Dear All, In the section Alpha rarefaction plotting, I could not understand the min and max depth. Here in the following parameters of moving pictures tutorial the p-max-depth kept at 4000. Qiime diversity alpha-rarefaction --i-table table.qza --i-phylogeny rooted-tree.qza *--p-max-depth 4000 * --m-metadata-file sample-metadata.tsv --o-visualization alpha-rarefaction.qzv For my sample what value I choose? from where this value comes from? What is the importance of this rarefaction pl…

Please read that post and the tutorials and forum links attached there to answer your questions.