The FeatureTable[Frequency] QIIME 2 artifact is the equivalent of the QIIME 1 OTU or BIOM table, and the FeatureData[Sequence] QIIME 2 artifact is the equivalent of the QIIME 1 representative sequences file. Because the “OTUs” resulting from DADA2 and Deblur are created by grouping unique sequences, these are the equivalent of 100% OTUs from QIIME 1, and are generally referred to as sequence variants. In QIIME 2, these OTUs are higher resolution than the QIIME 1 default of 97% OTUs, and they’re higher quality since these quality control steps are better than those implemented in QIIME 1. This should therefore result in more accurate estimates of diversity and taxonomic composition of samples than was achieved with QIIME 1.
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