workflow when importing biom table without sequences

[thermokarst]

@colinbrislawn

One easy way to figure out if your .biom table has taxonomy in it is to use the tail command and look for taxonomy strings. Try that!
tail -c200 otus.biom

This only works if the file is for the old-style BIOM 1 format, which has been replaced with the 2.1.0 format in recent years.

You can import a taxonomy-annotated biom file as both FeatureTable[Frequency] & FeatureData[Taxonomy]:

qiime tools import \
  --input-path my-file.biom \
  --output-path my-taxonomy.qza \
  --source-format BIOMV210Format \
  --type "FeatureData[Taxonomy]"