Microbial community patterns associated with Automated Teller Machine (ATM) keypads in New York City. surface metagenome

This project represents a baseline study of microbial communities associated with Automated Teller Machine (ATM) keypads in New York City. Microbial swab samples were collected from ATM keypads in three boroughs (Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn) during June and July 2014, followed by generation of Illumina MiSeq datasets for Bacterial/Archaeal (16S rRNA) and Eukaryotic (18S rRNA) marker genes. By focusing on ATM keypads in different geographic areas of New York City with distinct population demographics, we aimed to characterize the diversity and distribution of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes, thus providing a unique contribution to the growing body of work focused on the “urban microbiome”.