Open nbokulich opened 7 years ago
This is an interesting idea and definitely worth exploring (though honestly not a high priority for us in 2017 unless someone wants to implement it!). Right now QIIME 2 can't output/create metadata files so we'd need to add support for that in the framework. It sounds like there's a few cases where allowing QIIME 2 to write out metadata would be useful.
Proposed Behavior The question is: how to bin? The user could define:
[100, 1000, 10000]
would generate 3 bins: all samples with x < 100, 100 ≤ x < 10000, and x ≥ 10000. This would be useful for explicitly defining uneven bin sizes. A tangible example of where this would be used is if samples were collected from patients at many different ages, and an investigator wants to compare the microbiome at[3, 12, 24, 72, 144]
months of age.This method should require a user-defined name to give the new column.
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