Benthic microbial community composition across the northern and southern Gulf of Mexico, 2012-2015

This dataset includes 3 subsections. The first contains links to the 16S SSU rRNA gene sequences that were generated and deposited to the SRA at NCBI (Bioproject PRJNA414249). The second contains the raw oxygen concentrations for core profiles. The final contains the R code used to analyze these data, including R datafiles (RDS) that were used as input in predicting microbial community composition across the Gulf, the actual models (random forest regressions for each OTU), and the resulting predictions. Samples were collected from August 2012 to August 2015.