Last week I started of using QIIME2 to hopefully in a few weeks be able to perform my first microbiome analysis.
I am new to QIIME2 (and analysing sequences in general) and have a question regarding this forum: How to know if my sequence data demultiplexed? - #6 by Nicholas_Bokulich
You write in this story that because her lab already gave her demultiplexed sequences the barcodes are gone and she won't need them. Can I conclude from this that when you receive demultiplexed sequences, you don't have to include a barcode in the metafile?