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Workshop Files
Data files, manifests, metadata, classifiers, and R scripts, everything needed to follow along on Alpine HPC.
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Glossary
Key Terms
Searchable definitions for metrics, methods, and file formats used throughout the workshop.
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Publication Plots in R
Self-Study
Full export reference for moving QIIME2 artifacts into R, plus the workshop's visualizations.Rmd setup for publication-quality figures.
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Installing QIIME2
Setup Guide
Reference for installing QIIME2 and verifying the installation before the workshop.
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Scripting and Submitting Jobs on Alpine
Reference
Reference for writing scripts and submitting jobs on Alpine.
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Filtering Long Amplicons
Reference
Remove off-target, overly long amplicons (e.g. 18S reads picked up by the 16S primers) from your representative sequences.
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Transferring Files to Alpine
Globus & Data Transfer
Move large or numerous files to Alpine with GlobalProtect and Globus, including linking external storage like OneDrive or Dropbox.
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Uploading 16S Data to Qiita
Data Sharing
Submit your 16S sequences and metadata to Qiita, with the workshop SOP and a metadata template to get you started.
Open Guide

Further Reading

Resource Description
QIIME2 Documentation Official QIIME2 plugin and tutorial reference
QIIME2 Forum Community support and Q&A
GreenGenes2 Reference taxonomy and tree resources
DADA2 Paper Callahan et al. 2016, original DADA2 publication
ANCOM-BC Paper Lin & Peddada 2020, original ANCOM-BC publication
UniFrac Paper Lozupone & Knight 2005, UniFrac distance metric

Useful Tools

Tool Description
QIIME2 View Browser-based viewer for .qzv visualization files
Microbiome Analyst Web-based downstream analysis platform
phyloseq R package for microbiome data analysis
vegan R package for community ecology statistics

Citation

If you use methods or materials from this workshop in your research, please cite QIIME2:

Bolyen E, Rideout JR, Dillon MR, et al. (2019). Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2. Nature Biotechnology, 37, 852–857. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0209-9