# What type of sequencing data is used in this tutorial?

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**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 7:40am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/what-type-of-sequencing-data-is-used-in-this-tutorial/17951 "2021-01-05T07:40:02Z")
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### Author: ![Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/nicholas_bokulich/32/19937_2.png) [@Nicholas\_Bokulich](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Nicholas_Bokulich)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/what-type-of-sequencing-data-is-used-in-this-tutorial/17951/2 "2021-01-08T07:06:59Z")

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Welcome to the forum, @sensan!

> [@sensan](#):
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> Thanks to developers and translators, the quality of the tutorial translation is great!

Thank you for your kind words! All credit goes to @Yong-Xin_Liu for translating so many of our tutorials 😁

Note that this translation is of a rather old document (from 2017) so the most up-to-date information and tutorials will be found at [docs.qiime2.org](http://docs.qiime2.org), though these documents will be in English. For example, here is the latest version of this tutorial, and it explains many of these details earlier on:

[https://docs.qiime2.org/2020.11/tutorials/moving-pictures/](https://docs.qiime2.org/2020.11/tutorials/moving-pictures/)

> [@sensan](#):
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> I hope that the developer or translator can also explain the structure of the read in the sequencing data involved in the tutorial, whether the data is single-ended or double-ended

The data used here are single-end (that does not necessarily mean that the original study does not have paired-end reads, only single-end reads are used here for simplicity but other tutorials describe how to analyze paired-end reads).

> [@sensan](#):
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> the length of the read

150 nt, this is mentioned lower down in the tutorial:

> [@QIIME2中文帮助文档 (Chinese Manual)](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime2-chinese-manual/838/1):
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> 序列上游13 bp的序列质量偏低，设置trim-left 13截掉前13bp序列；整体150bp的质量都不错，则保留150 bp的序列长度。

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> the position of the barcode in the read, and the library is in the coverage area of the 16S genome

This is explained in the latest version of this tutorial but perhaps not the older version that was translated. This tutorial is using data generated using the EMP protocols, you can find more details here: [Protocols and Standards : earthmicrobiome](https://earthmicrobiome.org/protocols-and-standards/)

With the EMP protocol, the primer is not found in the sequence read. This is using the V4 primers 515f and 806r.

> [@sensan](#):
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> Even if the learner can run through the process, the choice of filtering methods and parameters is not clear, and it is not clear what genomic region the data covers.

These sorts of decisions are described in more detail in the current tutorials. The genomic region etc is actually of little consequence; this general protocol is quite applicable to different marker-gene sequence targets.

Good luck!

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