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Renames taxa to have short human-readable names

Usage

clean_taxa_names(x, name = "OTU")

Arguments

x

Object of class phyloseq

name

Character, defaults to "OTU". Optional. String to use in every taxa name.

Value

Object of class phyloseq, with taxa renamed (defaults to OTU1, OTU2, ...), with the original taxa names saved as an attribute.

Details

The original taxa names are saved as the original_names attribute. See the example for an example of how to access the original names.