where to get reference taxonomy for training custom classifier?

[SoilRotifer (Mike Robeson)]

Hi @saeedmn,

This sounds like a job for RESCRIPt! Specifically, check out:

Using RESCRIPt to compile sequence databases and taxonomy classifiers from NCBI Genbank

This tutorial will describe how to create custom reference databases from NCBI Genbank using RESCRIPt. Read more about RESCRIPt here: https://forum.qiime2.org/t/processing-filtering-and-evaluating-reference-sequence-data-with-rescript/15494/7 If using NCBI Genbank data, please be aware of the NCBI disclaimer and copyright notice. Citation: If you use RESCRIPt or any RESCRIPt-processed data in your research, please cite the following pre-print: Michael S Robeson II, Devon R O'Rourke, Benjami…

-Cheers!