DADA2 is an R-based pipeline designed for high-resolution processing of amplicon sequencing data using Amplicon Sequence Variants (ASVs) insted of clustering into OTUs.
- Filter and Trim - Corrects sequencing errors to recover true biological sequences.
- Learn Error Rates - Models sequencing errors from the data.
- Dereplication - Combines identical reads for efficiency.
- Denoising - Corrects errors and infers true sequences.
- Chimera Removal - Filters out artificial recombinants.
- Taxonomy Assignment - Classifies ASVs (e.g., with SILVA, Greengenes).