Datathon: a data archiving for equitability in microbial ecology

A Datathon is an event focused on the collection and archiving of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing.

Its purpose is:

1. Facilitating the proper deposition and archiving of 16S rRNA gene amplicon data and metadata in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)'s Sequence Read Archives (SRA)
2. The generation of local microbiome databases for local and global reuse

To facilitate the sharing of data we have created two tutorials:

• To submit sequence data to the NCBI Portal
• To generate compatible metadata tables, when sequence data has already been archived in NCBI but will be included in the local database.

Authors: María José Álvarez Blanco & Stephanie Jurburg

Contact the MICODA Team: contact.micoda@gmail.com

Associated institutions:

MiCoDa: the Microbial Community Database

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-Leipzig