This first release of Empress includes a tree visualizer with support for sample/feature metadata annotations and support for longitudinal visualization (animations). In addition Empress is integrated with Emperor through [QIIME2](https://qiime2.org/).
The project is still under activate development so backwards incompatibilities may happen.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by IBM Research AI through the AI Horizons Network. For more information visit the [IBM AI Horizons Network website](https://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/horizons-network/).