Taxonomy analysis

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi @cesteban,

@cesteban

I will use qiime1 to create my feature table and then import it into the new qiime to continue my analysis

@cesteban

I understand that when I import the biom table, it is my feature table

Correct — a "feature table" is what one might call an OTU table in qiime1, but is a more general and inclusive term that we use instead for the reasons that I describe here.

@cesteban

and from it I can do, for example, diversity analysis.

Correct — once you have your feature table, you can use it for diversity analysis (e.g., with the command example that you posted), and many other analyses as described in the tutorials and the available plugin documentation. Any plugin that accepts a FeatureTable[Frequency] as input can be used with that feature table! (and other functions exist in the feature-table plugin to convert feature table data into other formats, e.g., for methods that take FeatureTable[RelativeFrequency] format artifacts).

Those tutorials are the best starting point for any new user of QIIME2, but since it sounds like you are transitioning from using QIIME1, various other guides in the documentation may be useful for you, e.g., getting started can help orient you with the new concepts and methods in QIIME2.

Happy QIIMEing!