Dataset from the paper "Viruses from geothermal springs have ancient origins reflecting long-term interactions with extremophilic red algal mats"

Dataset of viral operational taxonomic units (vOTUs) and viral metagenome-assembled genomes (vMAGs) from the Lemonade Creek, Yellowstone National Park (YNP), USA, from the paper "Viruses from geothermal springs have ancient origins reflecting long-term interactions with extremophilic red algal mats". L. Felipe Benites1*, Timothy G. Stephens1, Julia Van Etten1,2, Timeeka James1, William C. Christian4, Kerrie Barry5, Igor V. Grigoriev5,6, Timothy R. McDermott3 and Debashish Bhattacharya1 1Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States of America 2Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States of America 3Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America 4Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America 5U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America 6Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America