when I ran the mothur cluster command, I got an error message shown as below. Is this common? If not, any suggestions to fix it?
mothur > cluster(phylip=NbnxrB179_PEAR_combine.good.unique.align.pcr.unique.pick.unique.pick.dist, count=NbnxrB179_PEAR_combine.good.unique.align.pcr.unique.pick.pick.count_table)
[ERROR]: expected a number and got M02064_10_000000000-A9AF7_1_1101_20331_1075. I suspect you entered a column formatted file as a phylip file, aborting.
Using NbnxrB179_PEAR_combine.good.unique.align.pcr.unique.pick.unique.pick.dist as input file for the column parameter.
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