Metagenome Assembly and Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences from a Historical Oil Field Located in Wietze, Germany

Michael O Eze; Stephan A Lütgert; Hannes Neubauer; Angeliki Balouri; Alina A Kraft; Anja Sieven; Rolf Daniel; Bernd Wemheuer

doi:10.1128/MRA.00333-20

Metagenome Assembly and Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences from a Historical Oil Field Located in Wietze, Germany

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 May 21;9(21):e00333-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00333-20.

Authors

Michael O Eze^{1

2

3}, Stephan A Lütgert⁴, Hannes Neubauer^{1

2}, Angeliki Balouri^{1

2}, Alina A Kraft^{1

2}, Anja Sieven^{1

2}, Rolf Daniel^{5

2}, Bernd Wemheuer^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
² Göttingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ German Oil Museum, Wietze, Germany.
⁵ Genomic and Applied Microbiology, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany rdaniel@gwdg.de.

Abstract

Crude oil-polluted sites are a global threat, raising the demand for remediation worldwide. Here, we investigated a crude oil metagenome from a former borehole in Wietze, Germany, and reconstructed 42 metagenome-assembled genomes, many of which contained genes involved in crude oil degradation with a high potential for bioremediation purposes.