<s>
QIIME	B-Application
(	O
pronounced	O
chime	O
;	O
an	O
abbreviation	O
for	O
Quantitative	O
Insights	O
Into	O
Microbial	O
Ecology	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
bioinformatic	O
pipeline	O
designated	O
for	O
the	O
task	O
of	O
analysing	O
microbial	O
communities	O
that	O
were	O
sampled	O
through	O
marker	O
gene	O
(	O
e.g.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
output	O
from	O
the	O
QIIME	B-Application
pipeline	O
is	O
a	O
feature	O
table	O
,	O
which	O
describes	O
the	O
abundances	O
of	O
each	O
OTU	O
or	O
sequence	O
variant	O
in	O
each	O
sample	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QIIME	B-Application
presents	O
a	O
very	O
modular	O
approach	O
and	O
allows	O
multiple	O
methods	O
to	O
be	O
applied	O
in	O
many	O
stages	O
of	O
the	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
the	O
stage	O
of	O
sequences	O
clustering	O
can	O
be	O
performed	O
using	O
either	O
UCLUST	B-Algorithm
,	O
CD-HIT	O
,	O
BLAST	B-Application
and	O
more	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QIIME	B-Application
is	O
under	O
active	O
development	O
since	O
its	O
release	O
in	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
