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@Robaina thanks for the suggestion! I'll try to put together a mini tutorial for setting up the metadata file. But in the meantime, EMPress follows the [qiime2 standard](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.10/tutorials/metadata/) for metadata....

For large tree, drawing a dotted line for each tip might not be the best option so, another option would be if the user clicks on the bar plot, the...

@ChrisKeefe this feature has been on my todo list. In the meantime, you can align the tips of the tree with the barplot by selecting `Make ultrametric` under the `Branch...

I am currently working on this.

@fedarko iirc we decided to keep clade collapsing as it currently is because iTol/other views do the same correct?

Hello @maque4004, we are currently in the processes of adding this feature to empress. If you are interested, you can checkout our development branch (see #521). Additional, somewhat related, #484...

This kind of encoding will be greatly beneficial for taxonomy since a lot of nodes will share level 1/2/... values. It might be better to reverse `{"gut": 0, "left palm":...

> Agreed that this'll help a lot. I think we could go even a bit further and just store the encodings in an array, similar to how we handled treeData:...

@ElDeveloper that is probably the better solution because we wouldn't have to refactoring the js. All we would need to to do is implement the compression/decompression.

Agreed, I think this would this feature can help the health team and be generally useful to everyone. I will place this feature on the top of my priority list.