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Table 2 Descriptions of the metagenomic datasets

From: Coverage evaluation of universal bacterial primers using the metagenomic datasets

Project name

Source description

Dominating phylum/phyla

Reference

AntarcticaAquatic (AA)

Antarctica Aquatic Microbial Metagenome

(All Metagenomic Shotgun Reads)

Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria

[36]

AcidMine (AM)

Acid Mine Drainage Metagenome

(All Metagenomic Shotgun Reads)

Nitrospirae

[30]

BisonMetagenome (BM)

Metagenome from Yellowstone Bison Hot Spring

(All Metagenomic Shotgun Reads)

Aquificae

[37]

GOS

Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

(All Metagenomic Sequence Reads)

Proteobacteria

[38]

GutlessWorm (GW)

Mediterranean Gutless Worm Metagenome

(All Metagenomic Sequence Reads)

Proteobacteria

[39]

HumanGut (HG)

Human Distal Gut Biome project

(Assembled Sequences)

Firmicutes, Actinobacteria

[40]

HOT

Microbial Community Genomics at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) station ALOHA

(All Metagenomic Sequence Reads)

Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria

[41]

  1. The metagenomic datasets used in this paper are from the CAMERA website (http://camera.calit2.net/). Dominating phyla have sequences amounting to more than 20% of the total in the dataset.