How to interpret the 'qiime feature-table core-features' output

[colinbrislawn (Colin J Brislawn)]

Welcome to the forums, Victor!

Yeah, those columns are not mentioned in the docs for qiime feature-table core-features

Those are counts at various percentiles. Full explanation here.

Understanding QIIME2 core-feature TSV

Hello @Dharitri, Sure! Let's start with the file name: core-features-1.000.tsv This file lists the core features that appear in 100% of your samples. (There should also be other files, like one called core-features-0.700.tsv that lists features in 70% of your samples). You now have a list of taxa that appear in all your samples. If that's all you need, you can stop here. But... you might have more questions, like "these taxa are in all my samples, but how abundant are they across all my s…

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