The Ministry of Education key laboratory of dairy biotechnology and engineering Raw sequence reads. The Ministry of Education key laboratory of dairy biotechnology and engineering

Aged vinegars are popular acidic condiments worldwide, used for their flavour and nutritional value; they also have a rich microbial diversity. This study combined the ultra-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole-time of flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF-MS) technology with Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing to analyze the microbial population and associated metabolism in six traditional Zhangjiajie Jiuqu aromatic ester vinegars (JAEVs) in China.