Hi everyone, After chatting with a collaborator, I am now questioning a little bit my interpretation of the terms trimming and truncation. What's the difference between them to you? My interpretation is that trimming is used when we are removing a fixed number of bases from the reads ends, while t…

Hi @vheidrich , Thanks for reaching out, these are great questions! I'll discuss below the differences between trimming and truncating (as they are utilized within the QIIME 2 core framework). Trimming: The number of base pairs that will be removed from either the 3' or the 5' end. In QIIME 2, you'…

Hi @lizgehret , This helps a lot! It is nice that you mentioned that not always the practical meaning of this terms will be the same, so I guess it really depends on the tools we are using. I'll mark your reply as the solution because this answers whether I should say trimming or truncating in a pre…

Hi @vheidrich , I wanted to reach back out because it was brought to my attention that my understanding of trimming vs. truncation wasn't quite correct - I've gone back and modified my original response from above to more accurately reflect how trimming and truncating are used within the QIIME 2 cor…

Hi @lizgehret , Thank you for the clarification. I guess now your answer is much more in line with my previous notion, but much better explained and the examples really help! We both probably went back and forth into what these terms mean within the QIIME 2 core framework throughout this topic, so d…

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