Virus operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) from Stordalen Mire, Sweden

This file is a collection of 5,051 virus operational taxonomy units (vOTUs) that were identified from samples collected from Stordalen Mire, a long-term ecological research site in Abisko, Sweden. Peat soil was sampled from the active layer across 3 different thaw stages (palsa, bog, and fen) between 2010-2017. From 379 bulk metagenomes, virus sequences were identified in silico using VirSorter1 (with additional stringent filtering criteria). Virus sequences above 5kb in length were then clustered into vOTUs (using a threshold of 95% identity and 80% coverage). This vOTU dataset is the basis of a research paper, entitled 'Virus ecology and 7-year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient,' (Sun and Pratama, et al., in prep.), which provides insights into permafrost viruses and their role in terrestrial carbon cycling.

FUNDING:

This research is a contribution of the EMERGE Biology Integration Institute (https://emerge-bii.github.io/), funded by the National Science Foundation, Biology Integration Institutes Program, Award # 2022070.
We thank the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and SITES for the support of the work done at the Abisko Scientific Research Station. SITES is supported by the Swedish Research Council's grant 4.3-2021-00164.
This study was also funded by the Genomic Science Program of the United States Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research, grant #s DE-SC0004632. DE-SC0010580. and DE-SC0016440.
A portion of this research was performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program (proposal: 10.46936/10.25585/60001148) and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (https://ror.org/04rc0xn13), which are DOE Office of Science User Facilities operated under Contract Nos. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (JGI) and DE-AC05-76RL01830 (EMSL).