Abstract
The intrinsic complexity of the microbiota combined with technical variability render shotgun metagenomics challenging to analyze for routine clinical or research applications. In silico data generation offers a controlled environment allowing for example to benchmark bioinformatics tools, to optimize study design, statistical power, or to validate targeted applications. Here, we propose assembly_finder and the Metagenomic Sequence Simulator (MeSS), two easy-to-use Bioconda packages, as part of a benchmarking toolkit to download genomes and simulate shotgun metagenomics samples, respectively. Outperforming existing tools in speed while requiring less memory, MeSS reproducibly generates accurate complex communities based on a list of taxonomic ranks and their abundance. All code is released under MIT License and is available on https://github.com/metagenlab/MeSS and https://github.com/metagenlab/assembly_finder.
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