Polar soil bacterial and fungal biodiversity survey

It contains the raw sequences (.fasta files) quality scores (.qual files), flowgram data from the 454 instrument (.flow files), an index of each sequence read and the sample to which it belongs (.groups file) which can be read into the software package 'mothur' (www.mothur.org). This is provided for both the bacterial fraction (16S) and the fungal fraction (ITS).These files were generated using the Roche 454 Titanium platform on 223 soils from the 8 locations previously mentioned. The data are generated using the 16S primers 27F and 519R and the fungal data are from the primers ITS1F and ITS 4. In the referenced study the data were analysed in mother version 1.23.1.In addition, the chemical and geographical data is provided as an excel spreadsheet. These parameters were all recorded but not necessarily implemented in the structural equation modelling. They are also the raw data and were transformed to reduce skewness and kurtosis.Full method details are in the manuscript.