Hi,
I have two feature tables for samples that were sequenced together, but because of computational issues for DADA2 I split them into two logical groups based on a metadata category. That was all successful and I’ve been able to do some downstream analyses on the two separate groups. However, I’m finding that I need to do some analyses for the entire set together.
I’ve successfully merged the two feature tables and the rep-seqs files. I’m wondering, what would be the best practice now…can I use merge-taxa-data to merge the two taxonomies together into one cohesive taxonomy for the entire data set? Or do I need to re-run that taxonomic classify step (which will take over a week for this data set and causes some serious grumping from our supercomputer squad)?
If I use merge-taxa-data will it know how to merge the feature IDs to match the merged feature tables and rep-seqs?
Thanks!
Alicia Reigel