No Metadata for Creating Visualization of Merged Tables

[jairideout (Jai Ram Rideout)]

@Sausage_Mahoney

I had a ‘<’ in the mix, although not in a metadata category label. I deleted it and re-ran the script above and it generated the same output error message. This sheet checked out in Keemei…any ideas?

Thanks for the report about Keemei @Sausage_Mahoney! As part of the Metadata Overhaul I'm working on, I will be updating Keemei's validation rules to match the latest rules enforced by QIIME 2. Looks like you found a bug that another forum user ran into related to the header -- I will get that fixed this month!

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MetaData Duplicate Column label

Hi @Stream_biofilm, thanks for reporting this issue! It looks like Keemei isn't up-to-date with how QIIME 2 interprets metadata files coming from QIIME 1 (i.e. where the header starts with #SampleID). Right now Keemei will treat any lines starting with # as a comment, so it needs to be updated to notice #SampleID as a special-case QIIME 1-style file. So with your data, Keemei is ignoring the header line (because it thinks it is a comment line) and treating the next line in the file as the heade…