Very different weighted unifrac results for qiime2 versus phyloseq

@nick-youngblut, I’m not sure of the source of the difference but thank you for flagging it. Weighted UniFrac is deterministic, and the implementations of UniFrac used by QIIME 2 are validated against the original implementation of UniFrac by Cathy Lozupone from PyCogent (unit tests for the version of UniFrac being used by QIIME 2 by default are here). Has anyone in your team followed up with the phyloseq developers about the difference?

Best,
Daniel

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