# Merging taxonomies made with different classifier types using rescript's merge-taxa **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/merging-taxonomies-made-with-different-classifier-types-using-rescripts-merge-taxa/20110 **Category:** Library Support **Created:** [July 6, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/merging-taxonomies-made-with-different-classifier-types-using-rescripts-merge-taxa/20110 "2021-07-06T15:32:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![smayne11](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/smayne11/32/10713_2.png) [@smayne11](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/smayne11) #### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/merging-taxonomies-made-with-different-classifier-types-using-rescripts-merge-taxa/20110/3 "2021-07-07T14:17:46Z")
A little more tinkering and I figured out that I actually don't need to merge BLAST & naive-Bayes taxonomies for my work, so not an urgent issue. I will provide what info I can for figuring out the bug in case it's something you want to look into more. Unfortunately, I don't know how to trim the taxonomies themselves and don't have the capability to recreate them on a smaller dataset at present. I'm currently running QIIME2 v2021.4.0 and RESCRIPt v2021.8.0.dev0+3.g1ce2142 The taxonomies I was attempting to merge, and the naive-Bayes classifiers used to create them, were created on QIIME2 v2021.2 and unknown RECSRIPt version installed April 2021. Some computer issues meant I had to reinstall QIIME2 recently. The taxonomies I was merging aren't all that large, so I'm going to upload them [here](https://osf.io/v4ks8/) in case you want to play around with them, along with the script I ran to get the errors (exactly as above, but including loading the QIIME2 environment, etc). Finally, I ran into another issue with merging taxonomies that I will post separately soon that seemed like it could be related. I will [link it here](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/rescript-merge-taxa-non-urgent-bug-blank-taxon-values-created-when-using-super/20115) when it is posted. Maybe both issues are just from using QIIME2 v2021.2 artifacts in newer versions of RECRIPt and QIIME2. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/merging-taxonomies-made-with-different-classifier-types-using-rescripts-merge-taxa/20110)._