Metadata file from the manuscript 'Alterations in airway microbiota in patients with acute lung injury after burn and inhalation injury'

Metadata file for 16S rRNA gene sequencing done on airway samples from victims of burn and inhalation injury.Duplicate  barcoded paired-end reads were sequenced on the Illumina MiSeq using the molecule tagging method described by Lundberg et. al. (Nature Methods, 2013, DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2634) and the OTU table was generated using the MTToolbox pipeline (Yourstone, 2015, BMC Bioinformatics, DOI: 10.1168/1471-2105-15-284). The OTU table was imported into the program Explicet (www.explicet.org; Robertson et. al., Bioinformatics, 2013, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt526), OTUs identified as the same species were condensed, and this table was exported and used for analysis in R.