Installing QIIME 2

QIIME 2 is a microbiome bioinformatics platform to analyze amplicon sequence data. The installation instructions below assume that you have already installed Miniconda.

Linux/WSL

In your Terminal (on Windows, switch to WSL), download the configuration file for a Conda environment that also contains QIIME 2
```
curl -sL \
  "https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2020.8-py36-linux-conda.yml" > \
  "qiime2.yml"
```

macOS

In your Terminal, download the configuration file for a Conda environment that also contains QIIME 2

curl -sL \
  "https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2020.8-py36-osx-conda.yml" > \
  "qiime2.yml"

Create a new Conda environment (this also installs QIIME 2):
```
conda env create -n qiime2 --file qiime2.yml
```
Delete the environment configuration file:
```
rm qiime2.yml
```
Activate the new Conda environment we have created:
```
conda activate qiime2
```
Your command prompt should now list (qiime2) as your Conda environment .
Test that QIIME 2 is installed:
```
qiime info
```

Installing QIIME 2

Linux/WSL

macOS

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