# Where to start for building data taxonomy and architecture

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/where-to-start-for-building-data-taxonomy-and-architecture/23910
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**Created:** [August 16, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/where-to-start-for-building-data-taxonomy-and-architecture/23910 "2022-08-16T17:41:58Z")
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### Author: ![Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/keegan-evans/32/10422_2.png) [@Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Keegan-Evans)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/where-to-start-for-building-data-taxonomy-and-architecture/23910/3 "2022-08-16T18:30:18Z")

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@datacade,

Welcome to the forum 🎊 What is your end goal here? Are you running analysis or building a plugin? It felt like this was an analysis related question so I moved the post over to the "User Support" section. I may have misunderstood your question, if that is the case let me know and I will move it back.

I think these doc pages might answer your architecture questions: [Plugin Workflows](https://docs.qiime2.org/2022.2/tutorials/overview/) and [QIIME 2 for Experienced Researchers](https://docs.qiime2.org/2022.2/tutorials/qiime2-for-experienced-microbiome-researchers/). You also might want to check out some of the videos from our workshops [2022](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbVDKwGpb3XmvnTrU40zHRT7NZWWVNUpt), [2021](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbVDKwGpb3XmkQmoBy1wh3QfWlWdn_pTT). The lecture videos are mostly the same between years, but the tutorials have some differences/use two different interfaces.

In regards to making your taxonomy, first off we have [several prebuilt taxonomies available](https://docs.qiime2.org/2022.2/data-resources/#taxonomy-classifiers-for-use-with-q2-feature-classifier). These tend to work pretty well, though an environment specific weighted taxonomy nearly always produces somewhat better results. That said, generic prebuilt ones are often "good enough" and a lot less work. If you do want to build your own, check out [this tutorial](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/processing-filtering-and-evaluating-the-silva-database-and-other-reference-sequence-data-with-rescript/15494)!

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