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uchimeout file
 
The ‑uchimeout option specifies a tabbed text output file for the UCHIME commands uchime_ref and uchime_denovo. Fields are shown in the following table. See UCHIME scoring for explanation of the fields.
 
Field Name Description
1 Score Higher score means more strongly chimeric alignment.
2 Q Query label.
3 A Parent A label.
4 B Parent B label.
5 IdQM Percent identity of query and the model (M) constructed as a segment of A and a segment of B.
6 IdQA Percent identity of Q and A.
7 IdQA Percent identity of Q and B.
8 IdAB Percent identity of A and B
9 IdQT Percent identity of Q and T.
10 LY Yes votes in left segment.
11 LN No votes in left segment.
12 LA Abstain votes in left segment.
13 RY Yes votes in right segment.
14 RN No votes in right segment.
15 RA Abstain votes in right segment.
16 Div Divergence, defined as (IdQM - IdQT).
17 YN? Y, N or ?, indicating whether the query was classified as chimeric (Y), not chimeric (N) or unclassified (?). Unclassified means that the evidence is borderline or the query appears to be too far from the reference database (uchime_ref only).