# Exporting with Taxonomy Error **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/exporting-with-taxonomy-error/16758 **Category:** Other Bioinformatics Tools **Tags:** export **Created:** [September 30, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/exporting-with-taxonomy-error/16758 "2020-09-30T18:45:57Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/soilrotifer/32/21071_2.png) [@SoilRotifer](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/SoilRotifer) #### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/exporting-with-taxonomy-error/16758/2 "2020-09-30T21:15:22Z")
Hi @Jrand, welcome to :qiime2: Try following the procedure outlined here. It appears there are some minor differences with your `biom add-metadata` command: > [@Exporting and modifying BIOM tables (e.g. adding taxonomy annotations)](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/exporting-and-modifying-biom-tables-e-g-adding-taxonomy-annotations/3630): > > Creating a TSV BIOM table The following is based on [a post](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-add-taxonomy-to-feature-table-qza-and-get-otu-id-of-each-taxonomy-and-number-of-otus/3470/22) by @gregcaporaso. $ qiime tools export table.qza --output-dir ./ $ biom convert -i feature-table.biom -o feature-table.tsv --to-tsv $ biom head -i feature-table.tsv # Constructed from biom file #OTU ID L1S105 L1S140 L1S208 L1S257 L1S281 4b5eeb300368260019c1fbc7a3c718fc 2222.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 fe30ff0f71a38a39cf1717ec2be3a2fc 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 d29fe3c70564fc0f69f2c03e0d1e5561 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 868528ca947bc57b69ffdf83e6b73bae 0.0 2276… and here: > [@Change header names from Feature ID to OTUID in exported TSVTaxonomyDirectoryFormat file](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/change-header-names-from-feature-id-to-otuid-in-exported-tsvtaxonomydirectoryformat-file/6653): > > Hello What is the command line to change header names Feature ID to OTU ID? Best regards, Jasmine You can also checkout more details about [biom convert](http://biom-format.org/documentation/biom_conversion.html). --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/exporting-with-taxonomy-error/16758)._