Open iimog opened 8 years ago
Currently any type of metadata attributed to each OTU would need to be imported as "fake taxonomy", as you indicate - other metadata at the sample level would be added at the end of the BIOM file and apply to ALL OTUs found within a samples.
Thanks for pointing this out - hopefully we can add support for toggling in between metadata/ontologies in future versions of Phinch. I'll leave this issue open for now.
The visualization of observation metadata seems to be limited to taxonomic information. The wiki (https://github.com/PitchInteractiveInc/Phinch/wiki/Visualization-Gallery#taxonomy-bar-chart) suggests that:
The same applies for the Bubble Chart. However both testing (with biom files that include observation metadata) and looking at the code indicate that Phinch can only handle taxonomy data. It worked to pass the metadata as fake taxonomy (the real taxonomy is lost in this case).
Is it possible to toggle between the type of metadata to use from the biom file?