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- Host: GitHub
- Owner: sanger-tol
- License: mit
- Language: Nextflow
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://pipelines.tol.sanger.ac.uk/metagenomeassembly
- Size: 5.55 MB
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README.md
sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly
Introduction
sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly is a bioinformatics pipeline for the assembly and binning of metagenomes using PacBio HiFi data and (optionally) Hi-C Illumina data.

Pipeline summary
- Assembles raw reads using metaMDBG.
- Maps HiFi and (optionally) Hi-C reads to the assembly using minimap2 and bwa-mem2.
- Bins the assembly using MetaBat2, MaxBin2, Bin3C (Hi-C binning), and Metator (Hi-C binning).
- (optionally) refine the bins using DAS_Tool and MagScoT.
- Assesses the completeness and contamination of bins using CheckM2 and assesses ncRNA content using tRNAscan-SE for tRNA and Infernal+Rfam for rRNA.
- Assigns taxonomy to bins using GTDB-TK and converts assignments to NCBI taxonomy labels.
- Summarises information at the bin level.
Usage
[!NOTE] If you are new to Nextflow and nf-core, please refer to this page on how to set-up Nextflow. Make sure to test your setup with
-profile testbefore running the workflow on actual data.
First, prepare a YAML with your input data that looks as follows:
input.yaml:
yaml
id: SampleName
pacbio:
fasta:
- /path/to/pacbio/file1.fasta.gz
- /path/to/pacbio/file2.fasta.gz
- ...
hic:
cram:
- /path/to/hic/hic1.cram
- /path/to/hic/hic2.cram
- ...
enzymes:
- enzyme_name_1 (e.g. DpnII)
- enzyme_name_1 (e.g. HinfI)
- ...
Now, you can run the pipeline using:
bash
nextflow run sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly \
-profile <docker/singularity/.../institute> \
--input input.yaml \
--outdir <OUTDIR>
[!WARNING] Please provide pipeline parameters via the CLI or Nextflow
-params-fileoption. Custom config files including those provided by the-cNextflow option can be used to provide any configuration except for parameters; see docs.
Credits
sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly was originally written by Jim Downie, Will Eagles, Noah Gettle.
Contributions and Support
If you would like to contribute to this pipeline, please see the contributing guidelines.
Citations
If you use sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly for your analysis, please cite it using the following doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15090769
An extensive list of references for the tools used by the pipeline can be found in the CITATIONS.md file.
This pipeline uses code and infrastructure developed and maintained by the nf-core community, reused here under the MIT license.
The nf-core framework for community-curated bioinformatics pipelines.
Philip Ewels, Alexander Peltzer, Sven Fillinger, Harshil Patel, Johannes Alneberg, Andreas Wilm, Maxime Ulysse Garcia, Paolo Di Tommaso & Sven Nahnsen.
Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Feb 13. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0439-x.
Owner
- Name: Tree of Life programme
- Login: sanger-tol
- Kind: organization
- Location: United Kingdom
- Website: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/programme/tree-of-life/
- Twitter: sangertol
- Repositories: 15
- Profile: https://github.com/sanger-tol
The Tree of Life Programme investigates the diversity of complex organisms (eukaryotes) through sequencing and cellular technology
Citation (CITATION.cff)
authors:
- affiliation: Wellcome Sanger Institute
email: jd42@sanger.ac.uk
family-names: Downie
given-names: Jim
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7175-0533
website: https://github.com/prototaxites
- affiliation: Wellcome Sanger Institute
email: 84074349+weaglesBio@users.noreply.github.com
family-names: Eagles
given-names: Will
orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9956-0404
website: https://github.com/weaglesBio
- affiliation: Wellcome Sanger Institute
family-names: Gettle
given-names: Noah
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3407-4086
website: https://github.com/gettl008
cff-version: 1.2.0
commit: 03874666ebe537c1cf5b1b8d5afaa13b6639b152
date-released: "2025-04-11"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15090769
license: MIT
message: If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from this file
and all references from CITATIONS.md .
repository-code: https://github.com/sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly
title: sanger-tol/metagenomeassembly v1.1.0 - The Elfin Knight
type: software
url: https://pipelines.tol.sanger.ac.uk/metagenomeassembly
version: 1.1.1
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