What it does

This tool calculates alpha diversity, or within-sample diversity, using an OTU table.

The resulting file(s) is a tab-delimited text file, where the columns correspond to alpha diversity metrics and the rows correspond to samples and their calculated diversity measurements. When a folder is given as input (-i), the script processes every otu table file in the given folder, and creates a corresponding file in the output directory.

More information about this tool is available on QIIME documentation.