Metagenomic data of the bacterial community in coastal Gulf of Mexico sediment microcosms following exposure to Macondo oil (MC252)

Hyunmin Koo; Asim K Bej

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.11.040

Metagenomic data of the bacterial community in coastal Gulf of Mexico sediment microcosms following exposure to Macondo oil (MC252)

Data Brief. 2015 Nov 26:6:89-93. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.11.040. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

Hyunmin Koo¹, Asim K Bej¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Abstract

The data in this article includes the sequences of bacterial 16S rRNA gene from metagenome of Macondo oil (MC252)-treated and non-oil-treated sediment microcosms, collected from coastal Gulf of Mexico and Bayou La Batre, USA. Metacommunity DNA was PCR amplified with 341F and 907R oligonucleotide primers, targeting V3-V5 regions of the 16S rRNA gene. Data were generated by using bacterial tag-encoded FLX-amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) methodology and then processed using bioinformatics tools such as QIIME. The data information is deposited to NCBI׳s BioProject and BioSample and raw sequence files are available via NCBI׳s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database.