Yep this is essentially the same output as 3
.
But this is the taxonomy. You can use qiime rescript edit-taxonomy, to edit / truncate the taxonomy strings prior to using this for making your intended output.
This is exactly what option 2
will provide you when you run in the order I suggested:
- qiime taxa collapse...
- qiime feature-table transpose ...
- qiime metadata tabulate ...
Not only does this provide the visualization, but then you can download the TSV file from this visualization.