For information on QIIME, see the QIIME website. To get help with using QIIME, visit http://help.qiime.org.
QIIME 1 is now considered to be in maintenance mode as we shift our development efforts to QIIME 2. We don't expect to release any new versions of QIIME 1, except for critical bug fixes if necessary. If you're interested in contributing to QIIME, please consider contributing to QIIME 2.
For related software projects and data, see biocore.