Hi all (sorry for x-posting!) nf-core recently announced a new initiative called 'special interest groups'. We have quite a few pipelines related to metagenomics (in a broad sense)/microbial(?) ecology, and I was wondered if anyone would be interested in setting up a SIG along those lines? Related pipelines as compiled by myself and @Carson Miller are: #CEA7TBJGJ, #C02FC6VFQG1, #C06316EFZSQ, #C02K5GX2W93, #CEQBS091V, #CE9MS66BS, #C031QH57DSS, #CJDV0UWH2, #C062H82UCRG, #C05E9C2B2BG, #C01U1E95JQ5 For example, I would be motivated to have a SIG for cross-pipeline discussions and coordination on how to integrate/chain the different pipelines together. Another possible discussion is if we can come up with 'standard' databases a la iGenomes we could build/ship etc. Please leave a 🥚 on this post if you would be interested in being in such a SIG, and if you have any thoughts of what you would like to get out of such a group, please leave a comment under the post 🙂. One important thing though is given I'm already on the core, maintainers, team and developing 4 pipelines (alongside my other 'real job' tasks), I need to balance my responsibilities 😬 .so I would like to find a couple of co-leads to help with it 🙂