Figure 1.

Connecting users and developers through benchmarking. The LEMMI platform facilitates the access to up-to-date implementations of methods for taxonomic binning and profiling. LEMMI creates a link between developers and users as it provides independent and unbiased benchmarks that are valuable to both. Developers need comparative evaluations to keep improving the methodology and to get their work published in peer-reviewed journals. Method users need a resource that keeps track of new developments and provides a flexible assessment of their performances to match their experimental goals, resources, and expectations. The containerized approach of LEMMI guarantees the transfer of a stable and usable implementation of each method from the developer to the final user, as they appear in the evaluation.