# DADA2 Results Interpretation **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-results-interpretation/25053 **Category:** Library Support **Tags:** dada2, moving-pictures, feature-table **Created:** [December 19, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-results-interpretation/25053 "2022-12-19T12:59:06Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/keegan-evans/32/10422_2.png) [@Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Keegan-Evans) #### Post date: [December 21, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-results-interpretation/25053/6 "2022-12-21T14:45:03Z")
> [@Taylorr](#): > > I am wondering if the fact that my frequency table has so many zero entires is concerning or not. It is totally fine, it is simply a sparse representation rather than a dense one. That is, it stores a count of each feature in each sample, regardless of whether or not it was found in that sample. [This thread](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/after-using-various-parameter-combinations-how-do-i-judge-which-dada2-result-is-best/13672/2) has some great discussion regarding the evaluation of denoising results, unfortunately there is not really a "right" answer, but you should consider the questions raised there and be able to justify the results you use in light of these considerations 🙃 sorry if that does not feel like a very helpful answer, I know there is nothing quite so unhelpful as "it depends" but in this case it really does. But your results do seem at least reasonable 😂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/dada2-results-interpretation/25053)._