making my own Shared file for diversity indices?

Commands in mothur
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Hi,

I was wondering if it makes sense to build my own shared file with instead of having the OTUs having the different classified taxa (let’s say different genera)…
I will try it but just wondering if the summary.single command could work OK with this?
the numbers in my table would be proportions…

Thanks
Cheers

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I don’t totally follow your question, but I think what you’re asking about is whether to make a shared file at the genus level. This is what we call the phylotype command in the MiSeq SOP. You might check that out.


Pat
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Thanks!

I built my own genera shared file and I am using that !