diff --git a/modules/motus/profile/main.nf b/modules/motus/profile/main.nf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3cf5961c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/motus/profile/main.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+process MOTUS_PROFILE {
+    tag "$meta.id"
+    label 'process_high'
+
+    conda (params.enable_conda ? "bioconda::motus=3.0.1" : null)
+    container "${ workflow.containerEngine == 'singularity' && !task.ext.singularity_pull_docker_container ?
+        'https://depot.galaxyproject.org/singularity/motus:3.0.1--pyhdfd78af_0':
+        'quay.io/biocontainers/motus:3.0.1--pyhdfd78af_0' }"
+
+    input:
+    tuple val(meta), path(reads)
+
+    output:
+    tuple val(meta), path("*.out"), emit: out
+    tuple val(meta), path("*.bam"), optional: true, emit: bam
+    path "versions.yml"           , emit: versions
+
+    when:
+    task.ext.when == null || task.ext.when
+
+    script:
+    def args = task.ext.args ?: ''
+    def prefix = task.ext.prefix ?: "${meta.id}"
+    def inputs = "$reads[0]".toLowerCase().endsWith('.bam') ?
+                    "-i ${reads}" :
+                    meta.single_end ?
+                        "-s $reads" : "-f ${reads[0]} -r ${reads[1]}"
+    """
+    motus profile \\
+        $args \\
+        $inputs \\
+        -t $task.cpus \\
+        -n ${prefix} \\
+        -o ${prefix}.out
+
+    cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
+    "${task.process}":
+        mOTUs: \$(echo \$(motus -h 2>&1) | sed 's/^.*Version: //; s/References.*\$//')
+    END_VERSIONS
+    """
+}
diff --git a/modules/motus/profile/meta.yml b/modules/motus/profile/meta.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..94f6a9fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/motus/profile/meta.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+name: "motus_profile"
+description: Taxonomic meta-omics profiling using universal marker genes
+keywords:
+  - classify
+  - metagenomics
+  - fastq
+  - taxonomic profiling
+tools:
+  - "motus":
+      description: "Marker gene-based OTU (mOTU) profiling"
+      homepage: "None"
+      documentation: "https://github.com/motu-tool/mOTUs/wiki"
+      tool_dev_url: "https://github.com/motu-tool/mOTUs"
+      doi: "10.1038/s41467-019-08844-4"
+      licence: "['GPL v3']"
+
+## TODO nf-core: Add a description of all of the variables used as input
+input:
+  - meta:
+      type: map
+      description: |
+        Groovy Map containing sample information
+        e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+  - reads:
+      type: file
+      description: |
+        List of input fastq/fasta files of size 1 and 2 for single-end and paired-end data,
+        respectively.
+      pattern: "*.{fastq,fq,fasta,fa,fastq.gz,fq.gz,fasta.gz,fa.gz}"
+  - db:
+      type: derectory
+      description: |
+        mOTUs database downloaded by `motus downloadDB`
+
+output:
+  - meta:
+      type: map
+      description: |
+        Groovy Map containing sample information
+        e.g. [ id:'test', single_end:false ]
+  - versions:
+      type: file
+      description: File containing software versions
+      pattern: "versions.yml"
+  - out:
+      type: file
+      description: Results with taxonomic classification of each read
+      pattern: "*.out"
+  - bam:
+      type: file
+      description: Sorted BAM file
+      pattern: "*.{bam}"
+
+authors:
+  - "@jianhong"
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index cd4913cf..028d236a 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -1194,6 +1194,10 @@ mosdepth:
   - modules/mosdepth/**
   - tests/modules/mosdepth/**
 
+motus/profile:
+  - modules/motus/profile/**
+  - tests/modules/motus/profile/**
+
 msisensor/msi:
   - modules/msisensor/msi/**
   - tests/modules/msisensor/msi/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/motus/profile/main.nf b/tests/modules/motus/profile/main.nf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54f51bd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/motus/profile/main.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
+
+nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
+
+include { MOTUS_PROFILE } from '../../../../modules/motus/profile/main.nf'
+
+workflow test_motus_profile_single_end {
+
+    input = [
+        [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
+        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_1_fastq_gz'], checkIfExists: true)
+    ]
+
+    MOTUS_PROFILE ( input )
+}
+
+workflow test_motus_profile_paired_end {
+
+    input = [
+        [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
+        [ file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_1_fastq_gz'], checkIfExists: true),
+          file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['illumina']['test_2_fastq_gz'], checkIfExists: true) ]
+    ]
+    MOTUS_PROFILE ( input )
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/modules/motus/profile/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/motus/profile/nextflow.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50f50a7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/motus/profile/nextflow.config
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+process {
+
+    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
+    
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/modules/motus/profile/test.yml b/tests/modules/motus/profile/test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4c69bb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/motus/profile/test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+## TODO nf-core: Please run the following command to build this file:
+#                nf-core modules create-test-yml motus/profile
+- name: "motus profile"
+  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/motus/profile -entry test_motus_profile -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/motus/profile/nextflow.config
+  tags:
+    - "motus"
+    #
+    - "motus/profile"
+    #
+  files:
+    - path: "output/motus/test.bam"
+      md5sum: e667c7caad0bc4b7ac383fd023c654fc
+    - path: output/motus/versions.yml
+      md5sum: a01fe51bc4c6a3a6226fbf77b2c7cf3b