Ability to download beta-diversity text file

[ElDeveloper]

Ported from Qiita-pet.

squirrelo commented a month ago
Current Qiime database does not give the beta-diversity distance matrix. Could this be made available in the new release?
 Yoshiki Vázquez Baeza

ElDeveloper commented a month ago
I'm pretty sure the distance matrix is part of the zipped file that comes as a result of a meta-analysis if you decided to compute any beta-diversity metric to plot it in a three dimensional space. But I agree that there should be a direct link to this file instead of just to the 3d plot.

[tracykteal]

+1 on being able to download the distance matrix or the FASTQ files for all the samples selected for analysis. Right now I don't see a zipped file that can be downloaded, just an index.html page link after running the meta-analysis.

[antgonza]

This should be really easy at this point. The tables exist and are available but we just need to put a link to #_beta_div.../unweighted_unifrac_dm.txt or weighted_unifrac_dm.txt.

[tracykteal]

Right, I could download them once you told me the URL, but there wasn't an indication that this was possible on the site. I think this would be a really important feature! Then people could do their own statistics and data analysis which is really key.

[antgonza]

Agree. Note that next week we will have a code sprint to solve this and other issues ... in case you want to join us virtually. Here are some notes: https://hackpad.com/Biocore-code-sprint-v15.3-X4ypG5V0mSz

[jwdebelius]

I'd like to be assigned to this.

[tracykteal]

Great to see this being implemented. Let me know if you need a beta (alpha?) tester.