Filtering Results of taxa plot and heatmap

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

@cbippert

Honestly, I need to cut down the number of reads, but I don’t really know how to do it. Just running the top 100 taxa probably would help a lot. I will try to figure out how to do that.

Use qiime feature-table filter-features, setting the min frequency at an appropriate level.

@cbippert

Another thing, I thought might be a good idea was to combine reads that are all from the same metadata category. Is this something I can do? And is it advised?

Do you mean group samples that share the same sample metadata value? See qiime feature-table group. Definitely not a bad idea when making heatmaps if you have many groups...

Let us know if that scratches your itch!