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OTU analysis
 
alpha_div Calculate alpha diversity metrics
annot Annotate sequences as known, contaminant or chimeric
beta_div Calculate beta diversity metrics
cluster_otus OTU clustering with chimera filtering (UPARSE-OTU algorithm)
cluster_otus_utax OTU clustering by taxonomy prediction (UTAX algorithm)
otutab2biom Convert tabbed-text OTU table to BIOM v1 format
otutab_counts2freqs Convert OTU table from counts to frequencies.
otutab_freqs2counts Convert OTU table from frequencies to counts
otutab_norm Normalize OTU table counts to same number of reads per sample
otutab_otu_subset Extract subset of OTUs
otutab_sample_subset Extract subset of samples
otutab_stats Report summary statistics for OTU table
otutab_trim Delete low-abundance counts, samples and OTUs
search_phix Screen input for matches to PhiX genome
uchime2_denovo Filter chimeras in denoised amplicon sequences
uchime2_ref Find chimeras by database search
uncross Detect cross-talk from OTU table
unoise Correct errors (denoise) amplicon reads, includes phix and chimera filters
unoise2 Correct errors (denoise) amplicon reads, includes phix and chimera filters
uparse_ref Classify mock community sequences (recognizes chimeras and read errors)