Beta Diversity distances should be stored as some sort of data-base accessible object.
This should be searchable, to limit unnecessary distance calculations and able to return a text-formatted distance matrix as normally produced by beta_diversity.py.
@wasade, I think this is part of what TMI is doing for participants, right? Would it be worth doing the same for all Qiita and perhaps storing in redbiom?
Beta Diversity distances should be stored as some sort of data-base accessible object.
This should be searchable, to limit unnecessary distance calculations and able to return a text-formatted distance matrix as normally produced by
beta_diversity.py
.