Project description:Picoplankton 16S rRNA gene sequences (DNA and RNA) from Vertical Profiles (surface to 4000m depth) sampled during the Malaspina 2010 circumglobal expedition
Project description:The Ocean microbiome has a crucial role in Earth's biogeochemical cycles. During the last decade, global cruises such as Tara Oceans and the Malaspina Expedition have expanded our understanding of the diversity and genetic repertoire of marine microbes. Nevertheless, there are still knowledge gaps regarding their diversity patterns throughout depth gradients ranging from the surface to the deep ocean. Here we present a dataset of 76 microbial metagenomes (MProfile) of the picoplankton size fraction (0.2-3.0 µm) collected in 11 vertical profiles covering contrasting ocean regions sampled during the Malaspina Expedition circumnavigation (7 depths, from surface to 4,000 m deep). The MProfile dataset produced 1.66 Tbp of raw DNA sequences from which we derived: 17.4 million genes clustered at 95% sequence similarity (M-GeneDB-VP), 2,672 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of Archaea and Bacteria (Malaspina-VP-MAGs), and over 100,000 viral genomic sequences. This dataset will be a valuable resource for exploring the functional and taxonomic connectivity between the photic and bathypelagic tropical and sub-tropical ocean, while increasing our general knowledge of the Ocean microbiome.
Project description:16S rDNA genes from different size-fraction across vertical profiles in the global ocean sampled during the Malaspina 2010 expedition
Project description:Picoplankton 18S rRNA gene sequences (V4 region, DNA and RNA) from Vertical Profiles (surface to 4000m depth) sampled during the Malaspina 2010 circumglobal expedition