bioBakery: a meta’omic analysis environment

bioBakery is a meta’omic analysis environment and collection of individual software tools with the capacity to process raw shotgun sequencingdata into actionable microbial community feature profiles, summary reports, and publication-ready figures. It includes a collection of pre- configured analysismodules also joined into workflows for reproducibility. bioBakery (http://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/biobakery) is publicly available for local installation as individual modules and as a virtual machine image. Each individual module has been developed to perform a particular task (e.g. quantitative taxonomic profiling or statistical analysis), and they are provided with source code, tutorials, demonstration data, and validation results; the bioBakery virtual imageincludes the entire suite of modules and their dependencies pre-installed. Images are available for both Amazon EC2 and Google Compute Engine. All software is open source under the MIT license. bioBakery is actively maintained with a support groupat biobakery-users@googlegroups.com and new tools being added upon their release. chuttenh@hsph.harvard.edu Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.