ESV vs ASV

[CarlyMuletzWolz]

This is not a technical question, but a semantics one. DADA2 and team have coined the term amplicon sequence variants (ASVs). But, I have noticed people using the term exact sequence variants (ESVs) in publications to refer to using DADA2 pipeline.

What are your thoughts? Exact sequence variant is a bit more informative, I think. For the sake of consistency it would be good for the community to use the same term.

Since you made the term, curious as to your thoughts? I am guessing you coined it as ASV and would prefer that to be the term used.

[benjjneb]

See #62 for the now historical discussion that led to the ASV term. Feel free to skip to the final comment for the ASV/ESV question: #62 (comment)

In short, we recommend "amplicon sequence variants (ASVs)", and the origin of the ESV term was an accident.

[spholmes]

There was a long discussion about this in issue #62 (#62 (comment)) The history of the name came from us starting with SV (strain variant) then RSV (Ribosomal strain variant) and then being asked by the referees of the paper published in ISMEJ to use the already coined asv's.

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