Tracing the origin of 'Feature ID / OTU ID" name

[timanix (Timur Yergaliyev)]

Hi!
I think this thread is answering your questions

How are ASV IDs generated?

I’m curious as to how the IDs assigned to ASV (e.g. 00137a07c917bab6cfcb89a796f69a38) are generated as I’m trying to merge multiple DADA2 feature tables together. Is it some sort of hash of the representative sequence? Can the ID be guaranteed to be the same for independent DADA2 runs assuming the representative sequence is the same between those runs? Can I assume the reverse-complement of the representative sequence is always guaranteed to yield the same ID? Is it safe to assume the represen…