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vsearch¶
| Description |
This plugin wraps the vsearch application, and provides methods for clustering and dereplicating features and sequences. |
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| Version | 2024.10.0 |
| Website | https://github.com/qiime2/q2-vsearch |
| Support |
Please post to the QIIME 2 forum for help with this plugin: https://forum.qiime2.org |
| q2cli Invocation | qiime vsearch
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| Artifact API Import | from qiime2.plugins import vsearch
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| Citations |
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Pipelines¶
Methods¶
- cluster-features-closed-reference: Closed-reference clustering of features.
- cluster-features-de-novo: De novo clustering of features.
- dereplicate-sequences: Dereplicate sequences.
- merge-pairs: Merge paired-end reads.
- uchime-denovo: De novo chimera filtering with vsearch.
- uchime-ref: Reference-based chimera filtering with vsearch.