problems of classification with low biomass samples

Hi @gregcaporaso thanks for your kind reply and suggestions.
The very reason I used the command is given by the fact that I was using that with qiime1 and spent some time also for debugging one of the releases of qiime 2 since there were problems with time of completing the command, solved also thanks to my pointing that out.

The reason for 0.85 is the one you pointed out: I have followed the tutorial and not changed in time.

may I ask you why with gut samples the problem does not manifest while with low biomass yes?

To conclude:
Should I finally run only the following

taxa_classi:
	$(CONDA_ACTIVATE) Miqiime2-2021.8;\
	qiime feature-classifier classify-sklearn \
	--i-classifier gg-13-8-99-nb-classifier.qza \
	--i-reads rep-seqs-or-85.qza \
	--o-classification taxonomy10C.qza

suppressing in toto the previous step?

joined_import_filter_derep_OTU:
	$(CONDA_ACTIVATE) Miqiime2-2021.8;\ # I have a conda environment
	qiime vsearch cluster-features-open-reference \
	--i-table table.qza \
	--i-sequences rep-seqs.qza \
	--i-reference-sequences 85_otus.qza \
	--p-perc-identity 0.85 \
	--o-clustered-table table-or-85.qza \
	--o-clustered-sequences rep-seqs-or-85.qza \
	--o-new-reference-sequences new-ref-seqs-or-85.qza \
	--p-threads 8 \
	--verbose 

so the input sequence for the classification are not clustered sequences coming from the following command:

joined_import_filter_derep:
	export HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING='FALSE';\
	$(CONDA_ACTIVATE) Miqiime2-2021.8;\
	qiime vsearch dereplicate-sequences \
	--i-sequences fil_joined.qza \
	--o-dereplicated-table table.qza \
	--o-dereplicated-sequences rep-seqs.qza

in the coming to the command

taxa_classi:
	$(CONDA_ACTIVATE) Miqiime2-2021.8;\
	qiime feature-classifier classify-sklearn \
	--i-classifier gg-13-8-99-nb-classifier.qza \
	--i-reads rep-seqs.qza \ #  instead of clustered sequences **rep-seqs-or-85.qza** 
	--o-classification taxonomy10C.qza

Could you please confirm?

I thank you so much

Michela