diff --git a/content/academia/taxprofiler.md b/content/academia/taxprofiler.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88c62e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/academia/taxprofiler.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: + "nf-core/taxprofiler: highly parallelised and flexible pipeline for metagenomic taxonomic classification and profiling" +date: 2023-10-23 +featured: true +tags: + - genomics +categories: + - paper +people: + - Sofia Stamouli + - Moritz E. Beber + - Tanja Normark + - Thomas A. Christensen II + - Lili Andersson-Li + - Maxime Borry + - Mahwash Jamy + - nf-core community + - James A. Fellows Yate +link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.20.563221 +journal: bioRxiv +--- + +Metagenomic classification tackles the problem of characterising the taxonomic source of all DNA sequencing reads in a sample. A common approach to address the differences and biases between the many different taxonomic classification tools is to run metagenomic data through multiple classification tools and databases. This, however, is a very time-consuming task when performed manually - particularly when combined with the appropriate preprocessing of sequencing reads before the classification. Here we present nf-core/taxprofiler, a highly parallelised read-processing and taxonomic classification pipeline. It is designed for the automated and simultaneous classification and/or profiling of both short- and long-read metagenomic sequencing libraries against a 11 taxonomic classifiers and profilers as well as databases within a single pipeline run. Implemented in Nextflow and as part of the nf-core initiative, the pipeline benefits from high levels of scalability and portability, accommodating from small to extremely large projects on a wide range of computing infrastructure. It has been developed following best-practise software development practises and community support to ensure longevity and adaptability of the pipeline, to help keep it up to date with the field of metagenomics.