The webinar covered new features and updates to the Nephele 2.0 bioinformatics analysis platform. Key updates included a new website interface, improved performance through a new infrastructure framework, the ability to resubmit jobs by ID, and interactive mapping file submission. New pipelines for 16S analysis using DADA2 and quality control preprocessing were introduced, and the existing 16S mothur pipeline was updated. The quality control pipeline provides tools to assess data quality before running microbiome analyses through FastQC, primer/adapter trimming with cutadapt, and additional quality filtering options. The webinar emphasized the importance of data quality checks and highlighted troubleshooting tips such as examining the log file for error messages when jobs fail.