# Compare taxa summaries in Qiime2

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/compare-taxa-summaries-in-qiime2/13763
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** taxonomy
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/compare-taxa-summaries-in-qiime2/13763 "2020-02-25T15:12:43Z")
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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 25, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/compare-taxa-summaries-in-qiime2/13763/2 "2020-02-25T17:20:39Z")

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Hi @pau,  
Check out the actions in [q2-quality-control](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.10/plugins/available/quality-control/)

See also [tutorials](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.10/tutorials/quality-control/)

And a real live example using a mock community at the end of [this tutorial](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/fungal-its-analysis-tutorial/7351)

Note that these methods were designed for use with mock communities or other datasets where the composition is known, since the outputs are accuracy metrics. However, it would be possible to use these methods to compare taxonomy classifications of samples with unknown compositions and the outputs essentially become measures of how similar those taxonomy classifications are.

> [@pau](#):
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> Also, I’m sorry if this is not “technical support” at all.

I have reclassified this as "user support"

Good luck!

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