Question about vsearch dereplicate

Haha, I found solution in a useful topic.

And now I know, vsearch just does the classic OTU clustering, which means, I need to Clustering and followed by chimera filtering and aggressive OTU filtering. Just like the picture shows:

But for a Dada2 results, use the table.qza and rep-seqs.qza to do taxonomy analysis and diversity analysis is recommended!

This forum is really useful! :partying_face:

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