Silva 138 for Qiime2

[colinbrislawn (Colin J Brislawn)]

Hello Damian,

Sounds like @SoilRotifer is going to try to import this new database!

Why all taxonomic levels on BarPlot have 'D' letter?

Hi @colinbrislawn That is a good question! I am not associated with the SILVA folks, or am I involved with their maintenance of taxonomy. But I typically, treat these ambiguous identifiers as, i.e. "unidentified" or "ambiguous". I'll try and parse the new SILVA v138 DB that recently came out. I'll post a link to these files when I get a chance. This way they will have 6 or 7-rank taxonomy labels as I've done for the previous 132 DB files. They are available here, until I can find a more perman…

Not sure if there is an official thread for this new database, yet!

Colin