290 metagenome-assembled genomes from the Mediterranean Sea: a resource for marine microbiology

Benjamin J Tully; Rohan Sachdeva; Elaina D Graham; John F Heidelberg

doi:10.7717/peerj.3558

290 metagenome-assembled genomes from the Mediterranean Sea: a resource for marine microbiology

PeerJ. 2017 Jul 10:5:e3558. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3558. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Benjamin J Tully¹, Rohan Sachdeva², Elaina D Graham², John F Heidelberg^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.

Abstract

The Tara Oceans Expedition has provided large, publicly-accessible microbial metagenomic datasets from a circumnavigation of the globe. Utilizing several size fractions from the samples originating in the Mediterranean Sea, we have used current assembly and binning techniques to reconstruct 290 putative draft metagenome-assembled bacterial and archaeal genomes, with an estimated completion of ≥50%, and an additional 2,786 bins, with estimated completion of 0-50%. We have submitted our results, including initial taxonomic and phylogenetic assignments, for the putative draft genomes to open-access repositories for the scientific community to use in ongoing research.

Keywords: Archaea; Bacteria; Mediterranean sea; Metagenome-assembled genomes; Metagenomics; Tara oceans.

Associated data

figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.3545330.v3

Grants and funding

Funding was provided by the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) to BJT and JFH (OCE-0939654). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.