Results consensus when analyzing many V regions

Happy new year to you as well @MiriamGorostidi!

The "consensus" in this method stands for something else: it means that the taxonomic ID (of each individual read) is assigned based on the consensus taxonomy of the top hits, not a consensus of the separate regions (which sounds more like a sum of the results from each read, rather than a consensus per se based on your description).

But the equivalent could be accomplished, by using the full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences as a reference and analyzing all the data together.

This and other related topics are discussed in this long but informative topic:

Good luck!

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