An assortment of scripts to help process and automate various microbiome and metagenomic bioinformatic tools. We provide workflows, tutorials and a virtual box image to help researchers process microbial data.

Our paper on Microbiome Helper has been published in mSystems. Please cite this paper if you use our repository:

Comeau AM, Douglas GM, Langille MGI. 2017. Microbiome Helper: a Custom and Streamlined Workflow for Microbiome Research. mSystems 2(1): e00127-16; DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00127-16    

Please see our wiki site for more info.

• Please feel free to post a question on the Microbiome Helper google group if you have any issues.
• Other technical questions and bug reporting about this repository and tutorials can be sent to gavin.douglas@dal.ca, and questions about the wet-lab protocols can be sent to andre.comeau@dal.ca.
• General comments or inquires about Microbiome Helper can be sent to morgan.g.i.langille@dal.ca.