Hello,
I plan to use qiime vsearch cluster-features-closed-reference to pick up OTUs using the green_99otus.qza as reference sequences, but I am wondering if it is necessary for me to set --p-perc-identity to 0.99. Could I just set --p-perc-identity to 0.97 or 0.90 when I use green99_otus.qza as reference sequences. Just like below:
qiime vsearch cluster-features-closed-reference
–i-table table.qza
–i-sequences rep-seqs.qza
–i-reference-sequences green_99_otus.qza
–p-perc-identity 0.97 \ #or 0.90
–p-strand “both”
–o-clustered-table table-cr-green-99.qza
–o-clustered-sequences rep-seqs-cr-green-99.qza
–o-unmatched-sequences unmatched-cr-green-99.qza \
Thanks for your time!
Heinz