### Is there an existing issue for this? - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### Problem description See [discussion on Slack](https://nfcore.slack.com/archives/C031QH57DSS/p1701903800138819) reported by @AmaliT. The following config causes errors: ``` motus_use_relative_abundance:true motus_save_mgc_read_counts:true ``` ### Code sample ``` CRITICAL schema_context column check merge.py:424 check_number failure_case index 0 Column read_count dtype('int64') None float64 None ``` ### Environment taxprofiler pipeline ### Anything else? _No response_