# Importing Qiime2 biom file with taxonomy to phyloseq

**URL:** <https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-qiime2-biom-file-with-taxonomy-to-phyloseq/2672>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Tags:** biom, taxonomy\
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-qiime2-biom-file-with-taxonomy-to-phyloseq/2672 "2018-01-22T16:19:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jairideout](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/jairideout/32/9_2.png) [@jairideout](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/jairideout)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/importing-qiime2-biom-file-with-taxonomy-to-phyloseq/2672/4 "2018-01-22T21:30:38Z")

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Hi @leila! Can you please try out the instructions in this forum topic? Let us know how it goes!

> [@Is there any way to summarize taxa plot by category?](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-summarize-taxa-plot-by-category/446/2):
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> Hi @m-ocejo! We currently don't have that functionality in QIIME 2's taxa barplots. I created [an issue](https://github.com/qiime2/q2-taxa/issues/71) to track the addition of that feature. Note that you can sort the samples by a metadata category, so that samples from the same category will be grouped together (but each bar will still represent a single sample). If you're interested in using QIIME 1 to produce these grouped barplots, you can export your BIOM table and taxonomy data from your .qza files. In order to use summarize\_taxa\_throug…

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