Soil Bacteria Community-Weighted rrn Operon Copy Number Estimation

Datasets and R-Scripts for estimating community-weighted rrn operon copy number for soil bacteria communities collected from the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, AK, USA, and from La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. File descriptions follow: "rrnDB_copy_number_database.csv": The Ribosomal RNA Database downloaded from rrndb.umms.med.umich.edu. Citation: Stoddard S.F, Smith B.J., Hein R., Roller B.R.K. and Schmidt T.M. (2015) rrnDB: improved tools for interpreting rRNA gene abundance in bacteria and archaea and a new foundation for future development. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1201 [PMID:25414355 "AK_16S_Genus_Abundance.csv": Count of ASVs by taxon (assigned to genus level) present in each soil sample collected in the Yukon_Kuskokwim River Delta, AK, USA. "Costa_Rica_16S_OTU_Abundance": Count of OTUs by taxon present in each soil sample collected in La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. "Alaska_rrn_copy_number_estimation_script.R": an R script for processing Alaska ASV count table and estimating community-weighted rrn operon copy numbers for each soil sample. "CostaRica_rrn_copy_number_estimation_script.R": an R script for processing Costa Rica OTU count table and estimating community-weighted rrn operon copy numbers for each soil sample.