alexpiper / taxreturn

An R package for creating taxonomic reference databases for metabarcoding studies
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prune_taxonomy function #19

Open alexpiper opened 4 years ago

alexpiper commented 4 years ago

Currently db files are very large, which makes multithreaded jobs with them crash.

Add a prune_taxonomy function to prune a db down to the relevant taxa involved. For example pruning to insecta and keeping only descendants taxa.