Table 1 Library types and reads obtained in the Amazon River May 2011 microbial gene and transcript inventories, as part of the Amazon Continuum Project
From: Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic inventories of the lower Amazon River, May 2011
Data type | Metagenomes (community DNA) | Metatranscriptomes (community mRNA) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stations sampled | 6 | 6 | |||
Size fractions sampled | 2 | 2 | |||
Replicates | 2 | 2 | |||
Samples | 24 | 24 | |||
Raw reads | 8.85 × 108 | 1.73 × 109 | |||
Joined reads post QC | 3.54 × 108 | 6.17 × 108 | |||
Average joined read length (bp) | 218 | 222 | |||
rRNA reads | – | 1.52 × 108 | |||
Potential protein-encoding reads | 3.52 × 108 | 3.78 × 108 | |||
Average abundance (genes L−1 or transcripts L−1) | Free-living | Particle-associated | Free-living | Particle-associated | |
Bacterial | 3.70 × 1012 | 6.18 × 1012 | 3.24 × 1010 | 6.17 × 1010 | |
Archaeal | 1.25 × 1011 | 1.94 × 1011 | 4.70 × 109 | 8.07 × 109 | |
Eukaryotic | 9.56 × 1010 | 1.88 × 1011 | 3.44 × 109 | 3.04 × 1010 | |
Viral | 1.39 × 1011 | 1.31 × 1011 | 4.50 × 108 | 5.42 × 108 | |