Description:The nf-bactopia plugin provides utility functions specifically for Bactopia genomics pipelines, handling input collection, parameter validation, channel manipulation, and sample data transformation. It integrates with Nextflow (>= 25) to replicate previous Bactopia library functionality and is compatible with nf-schema. Bioinformaticians developing or running Bactopia workflows would use this plugin to streamline data processing tasks like gathering outputs, filtering channels, and formatting samples.