Exploring metagenomic contigs and "binning" them are essential for delineating functional and evolutionary guilds within microbial communities. Despite available automated binners, researchers often find human involvement necessary to achieve representative results. We present BinaRena, an interactive graphic interface dedicated to aiding human operators to explore contigs via customizable visualization and to associate them with bins based on various data types, including sequence metrics, coverage profiles, taxonomic assignments and functional annotations. Binning plans can be edited, inspected and compared visually or using algorithms. Completeness and redundancy of user-selected contigs can be calculated real-time. We show that BinaRena facilitated biological pattern discovery, hypothesis generation and bin refinement in a tropical peatland metagenome. It enabled isolation of pathogenic genomes within closely-related populations from human gut samples. It significantly improved overall binning quality after curation using a simulated marine dataset. BinaRena is an installation-free, client-end web application for researchers of all levels.
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