uuid after import in Moving picture tutorial

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I installed qiime on google colab and it works fine.

I am in the middle of Moving Pictures tutorials( before that, I finish the course on the YouTube based on this link, GitHub - Gibbons-Lab/isb_course_2021: Materials and presentations for the 2021 ISB Virtual Microbiome Series.).

My main question is that, my printed UUID after import method for the file "emp-single-end-sequences.qza" is different from the tutorial page. Does it mean a problem?

my result:
!qiime tools peek emp-single-end-sequences.qza ("!" because I am on google colab)
UUID: f14d45eb-fb1d-449a-9419-a2a0ca84b116
Type: EMPSingleEndSequences
Data format: EMPSingleEndDirFmt

Best Regards,

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Nope, that's expected and okay!

If you are curious, UUID are Python object IDs and will change each time you make a new object, even if the data inside is the same.

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thanks, but how are they used for tracking the data if they are changing?

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The interactive Python session uses it to track data, while you would track it using the file path or by assigning the artifact to a variable.

What are you trying to do? (There's definitely a way to do it without using UUIDs.)

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@colinbrislawn
I faced it in Moving Picture tutorial. Because my UUID and the one mentioned in the tutorial were different, I was just curious about it. I am not going to do anything with it now.

thanks,

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