# Any plans to implement Q1 equivalent of "Observation Metadata Correlation"?

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/any-plans-to-implement-q1-equivalent-of-observation-metadata-correlation/2945
**Category:** Ideas and Suggestions
**Tags:** correlation
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/any-plans-to-implement-q1-equivalent-of-observation-metadata-correlation/2945 "2018-02-08T18:15:22Z")
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### Author: ![vrbana](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/977dab/32.png) [@vrbana](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/vrbana)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/any-plans-to-implement-q1-equivalent-of-observation-metadata-correlation/2945/1 "2018-02-08T18:15:22Z")

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Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't currently see a plugin that correlates continuous metadata with features. Thanks!

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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/any-plans-to-implement-q1-equivalent-of-observation-metadata-correlation/2945/2 "2018-02-08T18:59:33Z")

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Hi @vrbana,  
No, not currently — please see [this thread](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/sampling-depth-decision-making-question/2839/3). Please respond on that thread if you have a particular use case that can only be satisfied by such a method (and not, e.g., q2-gneiss), as described in that post.

I hope that helps!

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### Author: ![vrbana](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/977dab/32.png) [@vrbana](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/vrbana)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/any-plans-to-implement-q1-equivalent-of-observation-metadata-correlation/2945/3 "2018-02-08T19:16:39Z")

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Thanks, I definitely agree with those points for microbiome data in general and understand why it wasn't included, I just have a weird niche dataset (a tissue that basically has no bacteria unless perturbed by a pathogen which allows a few other bacteria to colonize) that it might actually be appropriate for. I'll just use methods outside of qiime.

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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/any-plans-to-implement-q1-equivalent-of-observation-metadata-correlation/2945/4 "2018-02-08T19:25:33Z")

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It should be straightforward to [export your feature table](https://docs.qiime2.org/2017.12/tutorials/exporting/#exporting-a-feature-table) to use that command in QIIME1, or another appropriate test in R.

Good luck!