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DADA2 vs DEBLUR

Hi all!

I'm a PhD student working on Microbiome and Mycobiome in skin dog! I'm learning how to use QIIME2 for sequences analysis.

I saw that in QIIME2 you can use or DADA2 or Deblur for the analysis, and my question is: what do you think about them?? which one is better?

Thank you very much, any help will be very appreciated!

Best regards

Sara

sequence sequencing next-gen

Thank you for your reply!

I obtained my sequencing data from IonTorrent and I'm sequencing the 16S gene. As I'm not an expert of DADA2 and Deblur, I asked opinions about them to understand if both were fine for these analysis!!

Americans are really preferring DADA2 for no reasons. Last month I attended this course QIIME2 with Antonio and Tomasz (who developed qiime) and they were all saying its your choice to choose. In any case it is the interpretation at the end. All the test sessions were also based on DADA2 and so I also used it for my dataset. The same recommendation I would give you as well!

best

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You are welcome! If you have any questions regarding workflow, you can reach me ..

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Ok so Deblur authors are not recommending Deblur in their workshops?

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This is really personal choice and also based on your dataset. If your sequencing data is Illumina MiSeq/HiSeq I would suggesting using DADA2

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