benchmark · challenge

CAMI

CAMI organizes community assessments of metagenomic assembly, binning and taxonomic profiling.

At a glance

Explanatory profile: source reviewed · Automated source review, 2026-09-16. This does not change the review status of its results.

Data, procedure and scoring
Property	Description and evidence
Record type	Challenge familycami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements
Inputs	Challenge metagenomic data and task-specific submissionscami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements
Outputs and assessment	Separate assembly, binning and profiling assessmentscami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements
Datasets	Not extracted or verified for this record.
Organisms	Not extracted or verified for this record.
Assays	Not extracted or verified for this record.
Splits	Not extracted or verified for this record.
Adaptation	Not extracted or verified for this record.
Baselines	Not extracted or verified for this record.

How it works

Procedure overview

Conceptual overview of the cited procedure; consult the pinned source for executable settings.

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Select challenge dataset
Run task method
Submit task output
Compare reference

cami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements

Procedure

Choose a challenge dataset and task, produce its required output and compare against the corresponding reference. Assembly, genome binning, taxonomic binning and abundance profiling are distinct evaluations.

cami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements

Connected tasks and protocols

CAMI genome binning · task · part of
CAMI metagenome assembly · task · part of
CAMI taxonomic binning · task · part of
CAMI taxonomic profiling · task · part of

These associations do not imply identical protocols or interchangeable scores.

Tested models and results

Release 2026-09-16-d74d282221a9 · 0 evaluations · 0 metric rows. Different protocols are not a single leaderboard.

Evaluated configurationMetricEvidence origin

No evaluations linked in this release.

Strengths and limitations

Strengths supported by sources

A shared challenge resource supports comparison across the metagenomic analysis workflow.cami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements

Limitations and conditions

Challenge edition, taxonomy and reference corrections matter; records from different editions are not interchangeable.cami official source · Official CAMI home page: mission; Summary / Per category; CAMI III announcements

Profile review details

Primary-source description checked by an automated research assistant. This is a profile review, not an independent execution or numerical reproduction.

Stable record: discovery-benchmark-cami

Applicable tests and references

Applicability is distinct from a completed evaluation.

CAMISIM · Proposed association
Kraken 2 · Proposed association
MetaPhlAn · Proposed association

Sources and history

Release 2026-09-16-d74d282221a9 · Record review: discovered

cami official source · Original source · Not reported

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Technical metadata and extraction receipts

Stable ID: discovery-benchmark-cami

areas: microbiome
entity level: challenge
missing metadata: dataset release: unextracted; metric implementation: unextracted; split manifest: unextracted; version: unextracted
scope note: Specialist molecular or omics evaluation; protocol details require review before numerical comparison.
task: Metagenomic assembly, binning and profiling assessment
version: Not reported

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