filter_biom.py

Filter biom file on both ‘sample’ and ‘observation’ axes, given a list ofsampieIDs to retain.

usage: filter_biom.py [-h] [-fo FILTER_OTUIDS_FNH] input_biom_fnh output_biom_fnh mapping_fnh

Required arguments

input_biom_fnh

BIOM file path.

output_biom_fnh

Filtered biom output file.

mapping_fnh

Mapping file with sampleIDs to retain in it. The ‘#SampleID’ column will be used to get the list of all ids to retain.

Optional arguments

-fo FILTER_OTUIDS_FNH, --filter_otuids_fnh FILTER_OTUIDS_FNH

Path to file to write out the list of OTUIDs not present in any SampleIDs in mapping file. This output is usually used to filter out unwanted otuids from “.tre” file. If not given, the discarded OTUIDs list will be saved in the current working directory.

-h, --help

Show the help message and exit