

Because the compositional data are constrained by the simplex (sum to 1) and are not unconstrained in the Euclidean space, many standard methods of analysis are not applicable. Second, because the relative abundance of taxa in the specimen (as well as in the ecosystem) sum to 1, these are compositional data.

Because the comparison of taxon relative abundance in the specimen is not equivalent to the comparison of taxon relative abundance in the ecosystems, this presents a special challenge. Although we are typically interested in comparing relative abundance of taxa in the ecosystem of two or more groups, we can only measure the taxon relative abundance in specimens obtained from the ecosystems. In particular, library sizes often vary over several ranges of magnitude, and the data contains many zeros. If merging data, ensure that your dada2 parameters are consistent.Data from 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) amplicon sequencing present challenges to ecological and statistical interpretation. Since ASVs have single nucleotide level resolution, the data can later be merged (see instructions below). This is because different runs can have different error profiles (See ). If you have a large project that spans multiple sequence runs, run dada2 separately on each run.-p-chimera-method consensus is the default and may perform better than pooled (See ).

However, DADA2 requires a minimum of 20 nucleotides of overlap. It is highly likely you will need to adjust these parameters for your own sequencing run. -p-trunc-len-f and -p-trunc-len-r are based on typical read quality profiles we observe with MiSeq 2x300 sequencing.You may want to adjust the max-ee paramters (number of expected errors) depending on your data. -p-max-ee-r is set to 4 (default: 2) which we often do for MiSeq 2x300 runs.-p-n-threads is set to 0 which uses all available cores.DADA2 website and FAQ ( Callahan et al.QIIME2 DADA2 denoise-paired docmentation.Generate and quantify amplicon sequence variants ASVs with DADA2 o-visualization paired-end-demux-trimmed.qzv
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Consult the QIIME2 documentation and other software documentation where appropriate to fully understand what each command and option is doing.
