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Add method to produce metadata with tabulated values #7

Open ElDeveloper opened 7 years ago

ElDeveloper commented 7 years ago

Improvement Description As it currently stands, the only way to get a TSV file with alpha diversity data is by generating the tabulated visualization, and from the visualization click on "Download as TSV". It would be nice to have a method in this plugin that didn't require the interaction with the browser.

References This was briefly discussed in a forum post here.

jairideout commented 7 years ago

We wanted to encourage users to use artifacts as metadata instead of exporting to TSV, that way provenance is preserved. But I can also see this being a useful utility in practice -- perhaps it's just a user education type of thing, where we document and recommend retaining provenance when possible.

One way to accomplish this would be supporting a qiime tools export command that lets users export an artifact as a Metadata TSV file.

ElDeveloper commented 7 years ago

Got it, yeah being able to export this with a command would be very handy.

On (Aug-22-17|23:29), Jai Ram Rideout wrote:

We wanted to encourage users to use artifacts as metadata instead of exporting to TSV, that way provenance is preserved. But I can also see this being a useful utility in practice -- perhaps it's just a user education type of thing, where we document and recommend retaining provenance when possible.

One way to accomplish this would be supporting a qiime tools export command that lets users export an artifact as a Metadata TSV file.

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