rarefaction data

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Hi,

Anyone knows how to have access to the rarefied data? I mean, when we do the rarefaction, it is possible to see those files, for example per species?

Thank you!

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Hi @annsantos,

You should be able to find this in your rarified table. If you're running core diversity, this post may be helpful in locating that file.

Best,
Justine

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Hi!
Thank you for your reply. However i couldn’t find what i was looking for, unfortunately.

Maybe i didn’t explained myself as i should. What i need is the rarefied data because i want to compare the counts for each specie with the relative abundance. Basically i want to see if i get the same tendency.

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Hi @annsantos,

If you ran core diversity, the rarified table is in core-metrics-results/rarefied_table.qza (like in the post I linked.)

Best,
Justine

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Thank you!

I got it! Now, do you know how can i have a table with those counts per taxa?

Ana Santos

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You can collapse a rarefied take in the same way that you collapse any other table, with qiime feature-table group where you use your taxonomy qza as your metadata and set --p-axis as feature. I think you can set the level --m-metadata-column, but you might need to play with that.

Best,
Justine

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Hi,

Since that the taxonomy file is not a table, how i find out the column for the -m-metadata-column?

Thank you

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Hi @annsantos,

As a brilliant collegue suggested to me, you may find more success with

qiime taxa collapse

I apologize, I often work with my taxonomy as metadata, particularly, in the python API so thats often a way I think of it.

Best,
Justine

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qiime taxa collapse
–i-table where i put the rarefied data?
–i-taxonomy and here the taxonomy table?
–p-level 7 \ #species level
–o-collapsed-table species-table.qza

Thank you

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Hi @annsantos,

I wanted to walk you through how I do this to check this. So, I pulled up the help documentation.

qiime taxa collapse --help
Usage: qiime taxa collapse [OPTIONS]

  Collapse groups of features that have the same taxonomic assignment
  through the specified level. The frequencies of all features will be
  summed when they are collapsed.

Inputs:
  --i-table ARTIFACT FeatureTable[Frequency]
                         Feature table to be collapsed.             [required]
  --i-taxonomy ARTIFACT FeatureData[Taxonomy]
                         Taxonomic annotations for features in the provided
                         feature table. All features in the feature table must
                         have a corresponding taxonomic annotation. Taxonomic
                         annotations that are not present in the feature table
                         will be ignored.                           [required]
Parameters:
  --p-level INTEGER      The taxonomic level at which the features should be
                         collapsed. All ouput features will have exactly this
                         many levels of taxonomic annotation.       [required]
Outputs:
  --o-collapsed-table ARTIFACT FeatureTable[Frequency]
                         The resulting feature table, where all features are
                         now taxonomic annotations with the user-specified
                         number of levels.                          [required]
Miscellaneous:
  --output-dir PATH      Output unspecified results to a directory
  --verbose / --quiet    Display verbose output to stdout and/or stderr
                         during execution of this action. Or silence output if
                         execution is successful (silence is golden).
  --citations            Show citations and exit.
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

The ---i-table flag is supposed to be for a FeatureTable Artifact, and the --i-taxonomy should be for a taxonomy artifact, so those are the inputs I would expect?

The one thing Im not sure about about is whether the taxonomy counts from 1 or 0. So, you may get an error with 7 (in which case try 6).

Best,
Justine

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Thank you!

So, to recap:

1- I did the qiime feature-table rarefy;
2 - qiime rate collapse
–i-table rarefied / rarefied-table1973.qzv
–i-taxonomy taxonomy.qza
–p-level 7
–o-collapsed-table species-rarefied-table.qza

Now, how do I convert in qza? Or is it better to tsv?

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Hi @annsantos,

Yes, that looks good. Your output table looks like it’s already a qza, so Im not sure what you mean about conversion?

Best,
Justine

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I’m sorry, i meant to say qzv.

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Hi @annsantos,

Now this behaves like any collapsed feature table. If you want to do the line-by-line comparison, your best bet is probably to take it out of QIIME.

Best,
Justine

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My first analyse was to check the relative frequencies of my taxa (per class, genus and species). What i did was :

1)qiime taxa collapse
2) qiime feature-table relative-frequency
3) qiime tools export
4) biom convert (to tsv)

Now, i want to do the same thing but with counts.

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Hi @annsantos,

Then, yes, that should work as a pipeline.

Best,
Justine

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