- Completly switched apscale to ESVs
- ESVs are no generated by individually denoising samples, leading to comparability of output sequences across different studies / pipeline runs
- Removed OTU clustering entirely
- Updated to the most recent search version (2.28)
- Added "unique_ID" to the final ESV table: This is a sha3_256 hash of the sequences and yields and unique ID for comparisons unlike "ESV_1" and so on
- A detailed explanation via protocols.io will follow soon!