EHI Data Release 1

The Earth Hologenome Initiative (EHI) is a global endeavour dedicated to revisit fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions from the systemic host-microbiota perspective, through the standardised generation and analysis of joint animal genomic and associated microbial metagenomic data. The first data release of the EHI contains 968 shotgun DNA sequencing read files containing 5.2 TB of raw genomic and metagenomic data derived from 21 vertebrate species sampled across 12 countries, as well as 17,666 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from these data. The dataset can be used to address fundamental questions about host-microbiota interactions, and become available to the research community under the EHI data usage conditions. Following the norms set in the Bermuda Principles, Fort Lauderdale agreement and Toronto International Data Release Workshop [35], the authors kindly request users to respect the rights of the many researchers who invested significant effort in collecting samples and generating data for primary research. For one year following the release of data, anyone wishing to use these data to investigate animal or microbial ecological and evolutionary questions should first contact the corresponding author. Following this communication, the EHI Management will facilitate discussions between interested users and the original researchers to ensure efforts are coordinated with the people that are already working with these data.