Duplicate samples in feature tables during merge

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

@ben

I assume it is because samples in the MiSeq runs have the same title. Which will need to be addressed. How should I go about this? Or when/where should each of these samples be renamed?

You can rename samples in a feature table using this trick. No need to re-do anything.

Another option would be to filter out the Blank samples.

@ben

Interestingly, I was able to merge the seq.qza files with success:

Because that file just contains feature IDs and sequences, not sample IDs (which cause the issue when merging tables).