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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.