Jessika Fiedler

TL;DR: The Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) challenge has engaged the global developer community to benchmark their programs on highly complex and realistic data sets, generated from ∼700 newly sequenced microorganisms and ∼600 novel viruses and plasmids and representing common experimental setups as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: CAMISIM can simulate a wide variety of microbial communities and metagenome data sets together with standards of truth for method evaluation, and generated the benchmark data sets of the first CAMI challenge.

TL;DR: Benchmark metagenomes were generated from ~700 newly sequenced microorganisms and ~600 novel viruses and plasmids, including genomes with varying degrees of relatedness to each other and to publicly available ones and representing common experimental setups.

TL;DR: The CAMISIM microbial community and meetagenome simulator can simulate a wide variety of microbial communities and metagenome data sets together with truth standards for method evaluation and high functional congruence to the real data is observed.