{"doi":"10.1101/2023.04.09.536171","title":"CAMP: A modular metagenomics analysis system for integrated multi-step data exploration","abstract":"Abstract Motivation Computational analysis of large-scale metagenomics sequencing datasets have proven to be both incredibly valuable for extracting isolate-level taxonomic, and functional insights from complex microbial communities. However, due to an ever-expanding ecosystem of metagenomics-specific methods and file-formats, designing seamless and scalable end-to-end workflows, and exploring the massive amounts of output data have become studies unto themselves. One-click bioinformatics pipelines have helped to organize these tools into targeted workflows, but they suffer from general compatibility and maintainability issues, and preclude replication. Methods To address the gap in easily extensible yet robustly distributable metagenomics workflows, we have developed a module-based metagenomics analysis system “Core Analysis Modular Pipeline” (CAMP), written in Snakemake, a popular workflow management system, along with a standardized module and working directory architecture. Each module can be run independently or conjointly with a series of others to produce the target data format (e.g. short-read preprocessing alone, or short-read preprocessing followed by de novo assembly), and outputs aggregated summary statistics reports and semi-guided Jupyter notebook-based visualizations. Results We have applied CAMP to a set of ten metagenomics samples to demonstrate how a modular analysis system with built-in data visualization at intermediate steps facilitates rich and seamless inter-communication between output data from different analytic purposes. 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