Annual dynamics and metagenomics of marine vesicles: a layer of complexity in the dissolved organic fraction

The data consists of Illumina raw reads obtained from prokaryotes from coastal Mediterranean seawaters in Alicante, Spain, over the course of one year. Illumina DNA prep kit (IDT, Ref. 20026930) was used following the manufacturer's protocol to generate and sequence the libraries for the obtained DNA samples from  prokaryotic metagenomes. Subsequently, these libraries were sequenced using HiSeq X technology (150 PE, 1 lane) by two different facilities: Macrogen in Seoul, Republic of Korea, and the Genomics Unit of the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain. The dataset was used in order to ascertain the main microbial producers involved in the release of DNA packaged in EVs in our annual sampling.

The samples are named according to the convention 'prokmeta[Month], where 'prokmeta' signifies prokaryotic metagenome, '[Month]' indicates the month of sampling, and "1" represents the forward , while (2) represent the  reverse read. For instance, 'prokmetaDEC.1' denotes the prokaryotic metagenome  for sample of December, with '1' indicating the forward read, while 'prokmetaDEC.2' represents the corresponding reverse read. This naming scheme is consistent across all samples in the dataset from sample of November 2021 to sample of June 2022.