Issue with venn command

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Hello All,

I have a question regarding the venn() command. Is it possible to create a Venn diagram with more than 4 groups?

In other words, I utilized the following command to generate a merge.shared file and then used the output file to execute the venn command.
(The shared file I am working with contains 5 groups.)

merge.groups(shared=final.opti_mcc.0.03.pick35.shared, design=time35.design)
venn(shared=final.opti_mcc.0.03.pic35.merge.shared)

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As shown, there are 5 groups in my merge.shared file, but the Venn diagram was created for only 4 groups.

Is it impossible to create a Venn diagram for 5 groups?

Please give me a solution.
Best regards,

-Alice

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Hi there,

mothur doesn’t offer the ability to do more than 4 groups in a venn diagram. A 5-way venn diagram is doable, but its unlikely that we’ll be incorporating it into mothur. You’ll have to figure out the values for the different values yourself.

Sorry!
pat

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Hi pat,

Thank you for your kind reply.

I will find another solution.

Best regards,
Alice

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Hi pat,

I have one more question.

From the svg file created using the venn command, I was able to obtain the number of common or different OTUs in each group.
But I would like to know what that specific OTU is.

What command should I use in this case?

Thank you for always.

Alice