Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges

Poster presented by Fernando Meyer at the 30th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2022), July 10-14, 2022, in Madison, USA.

The Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) is an initiative for the evaluation of methods for metagenome analysis through community involvement in the design of benchmark datasets, evaluation procedures, choice of performance metrics and questions to focus on. The first CAMI challenge delivered insights into the performances of metagenome assembly, genome and taxonomic binning and profiling programs across multiple complex benchmark datasets, including unpublished genomes. In the second round of challenges (CAMI II), we assessed program performances and progress on even larger and more complex datasets sampled from ~1,700 genomes and ~600 circular elements, including long-read data and further performance metrics such as runtime and memory use.