Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology

 Microbes are surrounding us, animals, plants and all their parasites with
 strong effect on these and the environment these live in. Soil quality comes
 to mind but also the effect that bacteria have on each other. Humans are
 influencing the absolute and relative abundance of bacteria by antibiotics,
 food, fertilizers - you name it - and these changes affect us.
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 QIIME 2 is a powerful, extensible, and decentralized microbiome analysis
 package with a focus on data and analysis transparency. QIIME 2 enables
 researchers to start an analysis with raw DNA sequence data and finish with
 publication-quality figures and statistical results.
 Key features:
  * Integrated and automatic tracking of data provenance
  * Semantic type system
  * Plugin system for extending microbiome analysis functionality
  * Support for multiple types of user interfaces (e.g. API, command line,
 graphical)
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 QIIME 2 is a complete redesign and rewrite of the QIIME 1 microbiome analysis
 pipeline. QIIME 2 will address many of the limitations of QIIME 1, while
 retaining the features that makes QIIME 1 a powerful and widely-used analysis
 pipeline.
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 QIIME 2 currently supports an initial end-to-end microbiome analysis pipeline.
 New functionality will regularly become available through QIIME 2 plugins. You
 can view a list of plugins that are currently available on the QIIME 2 plugin
 availability page. The future plugins page lists plugins that are being
 developed.