Description:The nf-bactopia plugin provides utility functions for Bactopia microbial genomics pipelines, handling input collection, parameter validation, channel manipulation, and sample data transformation. It solves the problem of managing complex data workflows in Nextflow >= 25 by replicating previous Bactopia library functionality through functions like gather, filter, and format. Bactopia pipeline developers use this plugin to streamline data processing and channel operations specific to bacterial genomics analysis.