primer_average.py

Combine multi-primer pick OTUs results files into a single results file while at the same time averaging sequence counts per sample for OTUs shared between the primer-set results. See reference: Kumar PS et al. (2011) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020956

usage: primer_average.py [-h] --p1 P1 --p2 P2 [-o OUTPUT_FP] [-v]

Required arguments

--p1 P1

Primer-set 1 seqs_otus results files.

--p2 P2

Primer-set 2 seqs_otus results files.

Optional arguments

-o OUTPUT_FP, --output_fp OUTPUT_FP

The combined seqs_otus file that has been averaged by shared OTU entries. Default: combined_seqs_otus.txt

-h, --help

Show the help message and exit

-v, --verbose

Print detailed information about script operation.