RDMkit efficiently manages metabarcoding and metagenomic data[RDMkit une ressource gérant efficacement les données métagénomiques et métabarcoding]

The RDMkit (Research Data Management toolkit for Life Sciences) is an ELIXIR-driven international resource designed to help scientists manage their data according to best practices. It enables users to identify the best practices for research data management (RDM) in line with the FAIR Principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. For metabarcoding data management, the lack of clear standards has been widely acknowledged in the literature, inducing initiatives to develop specific solutions (Shea et al. 2023; Takahashi et al. 2025). During the development of the RDMkit Biodiversity Domain page, the ELIXIR Biodiversity community identified the need for a dedicated RDMkit Metabarcoding Tool Assembly page. Driven by the ELIXIR Biodiversity and Microbiome communities, the existing marine metagenomics Tool Assembly page was also expanded to additional biomes and updated to include cross-community tools. Here we present the Metabarcoding and Metagenomics RDMkit Tool Assembly pages developed within the ELIXIR communities, that encompasses technologies and standards used in each community. This work was led by the Biodiversity and Microbiome communities but also benefited the Plant, Food & Nutrition, Research Data Management and the Interoperability Platform expertise.