# Mock Communities for Assessing Quality Control

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/mock-communities-for-assessing-quality-control/13638
**Category:** Technical Support
**Tags:** quality-control
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/mock-communities-for-assessing-quality-control/13638 "2020-02-15T19:58:47Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/mock-communities-for-assessing-quality-control/13638/9 "2021-04-08T14:03:49Z")

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Welcome to the forum @Mia_T !

> [@Mia\_T](#):
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> My question is, how did you get a qza file from an expected\_taxonomy.tsv file?

Please see an example of using a mockrobiota dataset in this tutorial:

> [@Fungal ITS analysis tutorial](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/fungal-its-analysis-tutorial/7351):
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> Fungal ITS analysis, mock communities, and more fun NOTE: This tutorial was written in a QIIME 2 2018.11 environment. It is not guaranteed to work with earlier or later versions of QIIME 2. This tutorial was compiled as a working exercise for a [QIIME 2 workshop](https://workshops.qiime2.org/microbiome-bioinformatics-qiime-2-2018-12-12/) in December 2018, and does not represent the only possible fungal ITS workflow with QIIME 2, or even a benchmarked protocol recommendation. See other tutorials, e.g., the [q2-itsxpress tutorial](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/q2-itsxpress-a-tutorial-on-a-qiime-2-plugin-to-trim-its-sequences/5780) for other fungal ITS analysis options in QII…

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