A combined culture-dependent and culture-independent approach highlights the prevalence of diverse manganese(II)-oxidizing bacteria in drinking water systems.

16S rRNA
pyrosequencing data from the Ann Arbor Drinking Water system for samples
collected from June 2010 to August 2011. The dataset includes six files:

1.
marcus.dwtp.fasta and marcus.dwds.fasta: unique fasta sequences that are
quality trimmed and chimera free for the drinking water treatment plant (dwtp)
and distribution system (dwds). The sequences were aligned to the SILVA seed
alignment available through mothur, filtered, and and degapped prior to blastn
analyses as described in the manuscript.

2.
marcus.dwtp.names and marcus.dwds.names: names file generated by mothur and
linked to the fasta files for the dwtp and dwds.

3.
marcus.dwtp.groups and marcus.dwds.groups: groups file generated by mothur and
linked to the dwtp and dwds specific fasta and names files. The group file
relates each sequence to the sampling location and sampling timepoint
associated with it. Specifically, the format is "location.timepoint".
Timepoints range from Jun10-Aug11 which are from June 2010 to August 2011. The
sampling locations include numeric values in the marcus.dwds.groups file with
1-13 as locations in the drinking water distribution system, while the locations
in the marcus.dwtp.groups file are r,w,i,f,e,re which refer to sampling
locations in the river (source water), well (source water), filter influent,
filter bed, filter effluent, and final reservoir - all of which were collected
in the drinking water treatment plant.