Katherine Silliman

Rescript plugin is not currently used in Tourmaline, but is very useful for database formatting and evaluation. Was suggested to include it in the Docker container. https://github.com/bokulich-lab/RESCRIPt/

Not everyone will want to do beta diversityor have extensive metadata, so don't check for that until the diversity step.

This would be helpful for downstream data analysis and uploading to OBIS. Challenge is that every reference database will have a different number and types of taxonomic ranks. How to...

From Luke: Let's cross reference with the config.yaml file in Tourmaline to make sure all of the information we request there is reflected here. Then we could add a note...

Update fastqc_per_base_sequence_quality_dropoff.py

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Update [fastqc_per_base_sequence_quality_dropoff.py](https://github.com/aomlomics/tourmaline/blob/develop/scripts/fastqc_per_base_sequence_quality_dropoff.py) to work with fastq_summary.qzv output

- Trimming stats - # of reads per sample - Sequence quality dropoff