| Category | Topics | 
|---|---|
| Microbial community profilingTools for bioinformatics on raw microbial community data, typically quantifying features such as taxa, genes, functions, metabolites, or other molecular or cellular activities. | 7 | 
| Downstream analysis and statisticsTools for microbial community modeling, significance calculations, differential abundance testing, and more. | 33 | 
| Infrastructure and utilitiesGeneral bioBakery or infrastructure utilities for microbial community or other computational biology research. | 9 | 
| 28 | |
| General microbial community science and analysesQuestions not related to a specific tool, or dealing with general applications or experimental design. | 5 | 
| 8 |