OTU table output files

See also
OTU / denoising pipeline
Generating an OTU table

Commands which support generating OTU tables understand the following options. The most commonly used commands are otutab and closed_ref .

-mapout filename
Tab-separated text file which maps reads to OTUs.
There is one read per line with two fields: the read label and the OTU identifier.

-otutabout filename
QIIME classic tabbed text format .

-biomout filename
BIOM v1.0 format (JSON) . The biom utility can be used to convert to BIOM v2.1 format (HDF5) .

-mothur_shared_out filename
Mothur "shared" file .