Importing open reference dataset

[thermokarst]

Hi @arnon!

What is it you would like to do with these data in QIIME 2? Examples for importing the bio and tre files can be found here:

• Importing data — QIIME 2 2018.4.0 documentation
• Importing data — QIIME 2 2018.4.0 documentation

I am not familiar with the specifics of the files output from this script in QIIME 1, but I imagine that the biom tables are annotated with sequence info - you can import that as a FeatureData[Sequence] artifact from your BIOM table:

Feature-table filter-samples removes taxonomy from biom table

Hi @antgonza! Looks like you found a bug! Our general strategy with BIOM tables is to normalize them on read/write, so that these biom metadata fields are stripped out (more on that below). It looks like this normalization is skipped when importing BIOMV210Format files (the normalization is applied when importing BIOMV100Format, though). As far as "stripping out biom metadata", the idea here is that we can represent these data using other QIIME 2 semantic types, for example the taxonomy metad…

Hope that helps! Keep us posted!