Hi all,
I’d like to ask some advice on the following point. I’m dealing with a dataset which include few negative controls.
Unfortunately, some of these come up with a number of sequences not far from samples (I de-noised with dada2, the run is 2x300bp on HiSeq). I’m trying to figure out if these samples are similar in composition to the rest of the samples or they are separate in taxonomy. I’m working on two ways, plotting the taxonomy and and with PCoA.
Now, I got a problem in running the ‘diversity beta’ plug in. I would like to do the analysis without any kind of normalisation, as to do a bit of diagnostic on the data.
When I run:
qiime diversity beta --i-table
…/ASVs/table-dada2.qza --p-metric braycurtis
–p-n-jobs 4 --o-distance-matrix dada2.notNormalised.diversity.bc.qza
I got the following error:
Plugin error from diversity:
Data must be symmetric and cannot contain NaNs.
Debug info has been saved to /tmp/qiime2-q2cli-err-emezfloe.log
With not much more explanation that I can found on the log.
The data contains 292 samples and 18,016 ASVs, and I’m running on a machine with enough RAM, I think.
If I try the beta_diversity.py script from QIIME1.9.1, I got a segmentation fault error, suggesting is a memory issue, but this is on a machine with 2 Tb of RAM.
Any suggestion?
(Also, any suggestion on how to deal with no so negative control samples?)
The dataset is not mine so I am afraid I can not share the data atm.
Many thanks,
Luca