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QIIME 2

microbiome multi-omics data science

QIIME 2™ (pronounced “chime two” 🔔) is a microbiome multi-omics bioinformatics and data science platform that is trusted, free, open source, extensible, and community developed and supported.

Take a look through the thousands of published research articles, hundreds of patent applications, and tens of clinical trial records that reference the project.

Get started

If you have QIIME 2 Results that you’d like to interact with, you can do that without installing anything using QIIME 2 View. If you want to install and start using QIIME 2, refer to the Installing QIIME 2 section of the user documentation.

🙋 Get help, connect, and learn on the QIIME 2 Forum

The QIIME 2 Forum is your main resource for using QIIME 2. Running since 2016, with over 7000 registered users and over 500,000 page views per month, it’s the hub of the microbiome data science community. Find announcements of releases and workshops, discover or share microbiome-related jobs, and get technical support - all for free on the Forum. See the latest announcements below 👇.

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🧐 Learn to use QIIME 2

The QIIME 2 user documentation is where you can find tutorials and reference content. There is a lot of excellent content here, and it is currently being refactored in JupyterBook and with Diátaxis to improve the organization and update the content to highlight the newest functionality. Check out the refactored documentation in Using QIIME 2.

🎛️ QIIME 2 makes your data analysis as efficient and accessible as possible, for you

If you’re a data scientist or want to integrate QIIME 2 in your existing code, checkout the Python 3 or R API. If you prefer to work with command line tools, you can start with the command line interface. If you prefer a graphical interface, try using QIIME 2 through Galaxy (for example, at https://cancer.usegalaxy.org). You can access the same underlying analytic functionality regardless of which interface you choose, so you can pick the one that makes you most efficient.

📈 Interact with QIIME 2 results and explore how they were generated

The new QIIME 2 View is completed re-written, enabling us to bring new features to you quicker. For now, check out the new dynamic Visualization gallery and consider sharing some of your favorite QIIME 2 results with the community.

📚 Discover tools built by others!

The newly refactored QIIME 2 Library is now live, and we have plans to continue to integrate new functionality to make it more useful for developers and users.

You can also learn about new functionality being introduced by the QIIME 2 developer community in the Community Contributions category on the QIIME 2 Forum:

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📓 Perform fully reproducible bioinformatics

Your analysis is complex - QIIME 2 records the steps you took to be sure that your work will be reproducible by you or others.

View the provenance of your (or anyone else’s) QIIME 2 result using QIIME 2 View or Provenance Replay by running:

$ qiime tools replay-provenance \
    --in-fp l6-ancom-subject.qzv \
    --out-fp my-datas-provenance.bash

🔌 Build, support, and publish your own QIIME 2 plugins

Developing with QIIME 2 is your main resource for learning QIIME 2 plugin development, starting with a 7 lesson tutorial where you’ll build your first QIIME 2 plugin from scratch. New content is added regularly. We’ll be accepting new entries to the refactored QIIME 2 Library soon (we’re currently testing with “alpha” users).

🙏 Funding

QIIME 2 is funded in part by NIH National Cancer Institute Informatics Technology for Cancer Research grant 1U24CA248454-01, and by grant DAF2019-207342 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (CZI grant DOI: 10.37921/862772dbrrej; funder DOI 10.13039/100014989).

This website was built with MyST Markdown, which is supported in part with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Initial support for the development of QIIME 2 was provided through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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