Biom add-metadata

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Liam Shaw

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Apr 6, 2016, 9:05:46 AM4/6/16
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Hi,

I'm not able to replicate the biom add-metadata tutorial here (http://biom-format.org/documentation/adding_metadata.html). 

The command 

biom add-metadata -i min_sparse_otu_table.biom -o table.w_omd.biom --observation-metadata-fp obs_md.txt

doesn't return an error. However, the table generated apparently contains no metadata. The output of biom summarize-table -i table.w_omd.biom is

Num samples: 6

Num observations: 5

Total count: 27

Table density (fraction of non-zero values): 0.500


Counts/sample summary:

 Min: 3.0

 Max: 7.0

 Median: 4.000

 Mean: 4.500

 Std. dev.: 1.500

 Sample Metadata Categories: None provided

 Observation Metadata Categories: None provided


Counts/sample detail:

Sample5: 3.0

Sample2: 3.0

Sample6: 4.0

Sample3: 4.0

Sample4: 6.0

Sample1: 7.0


i.e. no metadata seems to have been added. I've tried a number of combinations of converting between json/hdf5/tsv and nothing seems to work.  


What's gone wrong?


System information below.

Thanks,
Liam


System information

==================

         Platform: darwin

   Python version: 2.7.10 |Anaconda 2.2.0 (x86_64)| (default, May 28 2015, 17:04:42)  [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)]

Python executable: /macqiime/anaconda/bin/python


QIIME default reference information

===================================

For details on what files are used as QIIME's default references, see here:

 https://github.com/biocore/qiime-default-reference/releases/tag/0.1.2


Dependency versions

===================

          QIIME library version: 1.9.1

           QIIME script version: 1.9.1

qiime-default-reference version: 0.1.2

                  NumPy version: 1.11.0

                  SciPy version: 0.17.0

                 pandas version: 0.16.1

             matplotlib version: 1.4.3

            biom-format version: 2.1.5

                   h5py version: 2.4.0 (HDF5 version: 1.8.14)

                   qcli version: 0.1.1

                   pyqi version: 0.3.2

             scikit-bio version: 0.2.3

                 PyNAST version: 1.2.2

                Emperor version: 0.9.51

                burrito version: 0.9.1

       burrito-fillings version: 0.1.1

              sortmerna version: SortMeRNA version 2.0, 29/11/2014

              sumaclust version: SUMACLUST Version 1.0.00

                  swarm version: Swarm 1.2.19 [Jun  2 2015 14:40:16]

                          gdata: Installed.


QIIME config values

===================

For definitions of these settings and to learn how to configure QIIME, see here:

 http://qiime.org/install/qiime_config.html

 http://qiime.org/tutorials/parallel_qiime.html


                     blastmat_dir: None

      pick_otus_reference_seqs_fp: /macqiime/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/rep_set/97_otus.fasta

                         sc_queue: all.q

      topiaryexplorer_project_dir: None

     pynast_template_alignment_fp: /macqiime/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/rep_set_aligned/85_otus.pynast.fasta

                  cluster_jobs_fp: start_parallel_jobs.py

pynast_template_alignment_blastdb: None

assign_taxonomy_reference_seqs_fp: /macqiime/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/rep_set/97_otus.fasta

                     torque_queue: friendlyq

                    jobs_to_start: 1

                       slurm_time: None

            denoiser_min_per_core: 50

assign_taxonomy_id_to_taxonomy_fp: /macqiime/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/qiime_default_reference/gg_13_8_otus/taxonomy/97_otu_taxonomy.txt

                         temp_dir: /tmp/

                     slurm_memory: None

                      slurm_queue: None

                      blastall_fp: blastall

                 seconds_to_sleep: 60



min_sparse_otu_table.biom
obs_md.txt

jonsan

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Apr 6, 2016, 11:10:17 AM4/6/16
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Hi Liam, 

The problem lies in the field separation in the metadata file. It's got spaces between fields, but it needs to be tab separated. Try it with the attached. 

Cheers,
-jon
obs_md_tab.txt

Liam Shaw

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Apr 6, 2016, 11:19:18 AM4/6/16
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Hi Jon,

Works perfectly, thanks very much!

Cheers,
Liam
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