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Bioinform."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Background<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Environmental microbiome research has advanced through three complementary sequencing modalities, targeted 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, whole-genome shotgun (WGS) metagenomics, and long-read full-length 16S rRNA profiling, each supported by distinct toolsets with heterogeneous outputs, variable configurations, and different levels of reproducibility documentation. Existing pipelines are typically modality-specific, require substantial configuration expertise, or produce outputs that need further custom scripting before standard ecological analyses can begin. This analytical fragmentation introduces avoidable technical variability and complicates cross-study reproducibility and comparability. PUDU addresses this by integrating all three modalities into a single reproducible workflow with simplified configuration, harmonized outputs across classifiers, and direct compatibility with downstream ecological analysis frameworks.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      We present PUDU (Pipeline for Universal Diversity Unveiling), a modular Snakemake workflow that supports amplicon (short-read 16S), shotgun metagenomics (WGS), and long-read 16S analyses from raw reads to standardized outputs for downstream microbial ecology. PUDU performs technology-aware preprocessing and centralized quality control, and integrates established taxonomic approaches, including DADA2 for amplicons, Emu for full-length 16S long reads, and Kraken2\/Bracken and Centrifuger for WGS. Across methods, PUDU produces harmonized count and relative-abundance tables at user-defined taxonomic ranks, Krona files, and a standardized Phyloseq-compatible R object to streamline diversity analyses and statistical workflows. PUDU also provides an integrated Shiny interface for metadata-aware alpha\/beta diversity, ordination, community composition, and shared-taxa exploration with exportable figures and taxa tables. We demonstrate PUDU on two publicly available environmental datasets spanning rhizosphere WGS and long-read marine sediment 16S, yielding broadly consistent community-level patterns across classifiers (Spearman \u03c1 = 0.936 at phylum level; PERMANOVA R\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      = 0.87\u20130.95) with peak memory below 45 GB on a standard Linux workstation.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>PUDU is an end-to-end, reproducible, and extensible framework that enables standardized taxonomic profiling and ecology-oriented analysis across sequencing modalities. 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