# how can I merge a feature table with taxonomy classifications?

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-can-i-merge-a-feature-table-with-taxonomy-classifications/29950
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** taxonomy, dada2
**Created:** [April 17, 2024, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-can-i-merge-a-feature-table-with-taxonomy-classifications/29950 "2024-04-17T06:14:23Z")
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### 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: [April 17, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-can-i-merge-a-feature-table-with-taxonomy-classifications/29950/2 "2024-04-17T15:38:11Z")

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The easiest way is to do the following:

> [@How to build an OTU table](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-build-an-otu-table/26900/2):
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> Hi @neocat, This is intended. If you work through the tutorials again, you'll notice that the feature-table (i.e. the counts table) is kept as a separate file from the taxonomy. I suggest reading through the qiime2 [overview](https://docs.qiime2.org/2023.5/tutorials/overview/), for more details. If you'd like to take a quick look at an old-style QIIME 1 like table, you can run the following commands: qiime feature-table transpose \ --i-table table.qza \ --o-transposed-feature-table table-transposed.qza qiime metadata tabulate \ -…

Then click on the export button.

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