# From qurro to taxa barplots
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** qurro, taxa, barplot
**Created:** [September 30, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754 "2020-09-30T13:12:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@arwqiime](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/arwqiime)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754/1 "2020-09-30T13:12:54Z")
Hi,
I would like to use taxa barplots to display selected feature e.g. from qurro analyses.
For testing I did the following:
I have analysed a microbiome data by deicode and could identify the most contributing taxa to rpca along one axis in qurro (used autoselection of top/bottom 1%).
I exported these features from qurro und used these features to filter a frequency table by 'qiime feature-table filter-features'. A taxa barplot using these filtered table and the taxonomic classification gave me a barplot with just the features previously exported from qurro.
Not bad, showed the selected relative abundances, but I lost of course the relative scaling for all features, and therefore this kind of barplot is only of limited use.
What I am searching for is a barplot with an 'option' to select features from a separat table, e.g. the tsv table exported from qurro (instead of selecting them manually, one by one...). I assume, that this would require a major redesign of the taxa barplot plugin, but may be there is a way around to get to the same result with existing functionalities.
Best regards
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### Author:  [@fedarko](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/fedarko)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754/2 "2020-10-01T00:08:24Z")
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### Author:  [@fedarko](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/fedarko)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754/3 "2020-10-01T04:04:46Z")
Thanks for the clear explanation. I don't know of an easy way in (QIIME 2) of automatically filtering a barplot to just show a set list of features, unfortunately (at least not while still keeping the same "proportions" as the unfiltered data, as you discussed).
I think doing this currently will either require 1. selecting the features manually, as you suggested, or 2. using custom code to create a barplot with only certain sections colored in (this might be doable with [phyloseq's taxonomic barplots](https://joey711.github.io/phyloseq/plot_bar-examples.html), which as I understand can be customized with ggplot2?).
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### Author:  [@fedarko](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/fedarko)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754/4 "2020-10-01T04:04:53Z")
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### Author:  [@arwqiime](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/arwqiime)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754/5 "2020-10-01T07:38:43Z")
Thank you for your comments on my idea of presenting results. Many colleagues are more familiar with taxa barplots than with qurro's log-ratio plot, althought the latter one has much more power.
Best regards,
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/from-qurro-to-taxa-barplots/16754/9 "2020-11-02T14:20:08Z")
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