Genome assemblies for halophilic bacteria with potential contamination, sampled from Northern California in 2022

BIS 23 is an undergraduate research course offered at UC Davis, designed
to teach new undergraduates the fundamentals of good science and academic
research. The course is structured around the collection and sequencing of
halophilic organisms (e.g. salt-tolerant bacteria) from samples taken by
students themselves. In the 2022/2023 iteration of the course, students
took dozens of environmental samples from Northern California, primarily
in Davis, CA. These samples were cultured, incubated, and the most
successful ones were sent for sequencing. Nine genome scaffolds were
successfully created after sequencining on the Illumina MiSeq platform and
processing with Trimmomatic 0.36 and SPAdes 3.7. Only 6 of the 9 scaffolds
were accepted by the NCBI Genome database, due to suspected contamination
in the remaining 3. This dataset provides the FASTA files for the 3
assemblies with suspected contamination. Researchers can freely access and
use this dataset for any purpose, such as applying more advanced
contamination detection and removal algorithms that were beyond the scope
of the undergraduate course.