Marine sediment metagenome. marine sediment metagenome

This study focuses on the bacterial community profiling of Arabian Sea sediments based on Illumina sequencing, targeting the V3 regions of 16S rRNA gene. The result revealed the enormous richness of the Arabian Sea metagenome with 6309 OTUs falling into 43 bacterial phyla, including 18 formally described bacterial phyla and 25 candidate phyla. Taxonomic analysis of sequences identified Proteobacteria as the most abundant phylum in the sediment representing 46.47% of the total diversity were obtained. 1038 OTUs were unknown representing 16.45% indicating the possibilities for the identification of novel yet to be cultured organisms in Arabian Sea sediments awaiting discovery.