Environmental metabarcoding for monitoring benthic communities.

The files provided here are the raw fastq files used for the manuscript Laroche et al., 2017 "Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities." which currently under peer-review.<br>Environmental DNA/RNA samples were collected in the Tasman sea (New Zealand) from marine sediment in proximity to an offshore oil production platform. <br>Amplicons were sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq platform.<br>The present files are demultiplexed fastq files of bacteria (16S) and eukaryotes (18S). <br>In file name, BED = DNA sequences and BEC = RNA sequences, the following number (e.g BEC_43...) represent the sample number. R1 = forward sequences, R2 = reverse sequences. The taxa is identified at the end of the name file (e.g. _Bac.fq for bacteria and _Euk.fq for eukaryotes).<br><br>Please refer to the manuscript for additional information on the dataset.<br><br>