Oyster metagenome Raw sequence reads

Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in the growing demand for seafood. Oyster hatcheries are an integral component of oyster farming – as they provide a source of healthy larvae that can be seeded in designated waters. Larvae from certain tanks in an established aquaculture enterprise were dying from an unknown etiologic agent. A metagenomic approach was used to examine tanks (water and larvae) with high and low survival rates –to evaluate the epidemiological efficacy of this approach. Few diseases of oysters are currently well characterized genomically.