This is an input single file for Maxent application that represents the presence points of the species. It can come in different formats, that are specified below, in the last section. Regardless of the format, this file should contain a series of geographic points where the species have been recorded during a period of time.

This is one of the three input files required for running Step 1 (Metabarcoding Runner) of the Metabarcoding workflow. The fastq file contains DNA sequences generated from High Throughput Sequencing of eDNA samples. The other two input files for Step 1 are the "Reference_db" and the "Sample_metadata" containing respectively the reference genetic sequences for the taxonomic assignment and the eDNA samples information.