How to build a QIIME2-compatible species annotation reference database

Hello Miao,

Consider this tutorial: Using RESCRIPt to compile sequence databases and taxonomy classifiers from NCBI Genbank

This tutorial will work for sequences already on NCBI, but it sounds like your microbes do not have sequenced genomes on NCBI. Have you already isolated, sequenced, and assembled their genomes? What data do you have?

:warning: Building databases is hard! There is no 'correct' way to do it, and everyone will argue with you over your methods. I try to avoid this if possible.

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