Can Qiime assign taxonomy to proteins?

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Welcome @iquasere !

QIIME 2 cannot currently assign taxonomy to proteins. It is a work in progress to add this functionality (contributions are very welcome! ), see here for more details and relevant discussion:

Importing protein sequences into version 2021.2

Hi q2-team! I was excited to see the 2021.2 version including q2-types that can read proteins/amino acid sequences. But I am getting errors importing an unaligned .fasta file, which contains typical fasta headers and amino acid sequence lines. I reference this announcement about protein types (QIIME 2 2021.2 is now available). Can I confirm the formats/q2-types listed in the announcement are immediately available? For instance, when running a qiime tools import command, it yields an error: No …