Metagenomics of Washed Rind Cheese Communities

We used short and long read metagenomics to look at the microbial diversity of cheese rind biofilms from several washed rind cheeses. Short reads were assembled with metaSPAdes 3.15.3. Oxford Nanopore reads were assembled with metaFlye 2.9.1 and polished with medaka 1.7.2. The following samples were sequenced with both Illumina and Oxford Nanopore Technologies and are samples from the same style of cheese sampled at different times throughout the aging process (early, middle, and late timepoints spanning the standard aging time for each cheese style): EL2W, EL4W, EL12W (2, 4, 12 weeks) OM2W, OM4W, OM8W (2, 4, 8 weeks) WH1M, WH2M, WH4M (1, 2, 4 months)