NCBI accessions and metadata associated with Caribbean sponge metagenomes collected from Curacao, Belize, Cayman Islands and St. Croix, 2009 and 2017-2018

<p>This dataset includes NCBI Accessions for Raw sequence data for 16S rRNA amplicon microbiomes.</p>

<p>The NCBI BioProject number is PRJNA555077 which covers 1547 samples of 16S libraries where the metadata are also available but the sequences themselves are still embargoed. [2019-08-15]</p>

<p>Samples were collected at 15 m by SCUBA diving in the Caribbean near Curacao, Belize, Cayman Islands and St. Croix, in 2009 and 2017-2018. Samples were cleaned, frozen whole, or placed in a DNA/RNA preservation buffer and shipped back to the University of New Hampshire where DNA was extracted and metagenetic, shotgun or cDNA sequencing was conducted.</p>

<p>Data was quality controlled and analyzed in spreadsheets for descriptive statistics, and statistical software was used for bioinformatic analyses.</p>