For single end Demultiplexed sequence data, when prepare manifest, do we need direction?

Hi @CamilleZhao,

The short answer is technically yes, but it also depends on what exactly you're trying to accomplish- here are a couple of good threads from other folks who were working with full-length Nanopore 16S data and what they did in QIIME 2 vs. other tools:

Hope this helps!

Cheers :lizard: