Reads were put through a quality control pipeline that removed rRNAs and internal standards added for quantification (Satinsky et al. 2013). Transcripts per liter of seawater at the beginning and end of the incubations were calculated based on internal standard recovery as described in Satinsky et al. 2013.
References:
Brandon M. Satinsky, Scott M. Gifford, Byron C. Crump, Mary Ann Moran, 2013. Chapter 12: "Use of Internal Standards for Quantitative Metatranscriptome and Metagenome Analysis" in Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 531. ISSN 0076-6879, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-407863-5.00012-5.
Brandon M. Satinskya, Byron C. Crumpb, Christa B. Smithc, Shalabh Sharmac, Brian L. Zielinskid, Mary Dohertye, Jun Mengc, Shulei Sunf, Patricia M. Medeirosc, John H. Pauld, Victoria J. Colese, Patricia L. Yagerc, and Mary Ann Moranc. 2014. Microspatial gene expression patterns in the Amazon River Plume. PNAS 111(30):11085-11090. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1402782111
BCO-DMO Processing:
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- column names reformatted to comply with BCO-DMO standards
- replaced spaces with underscores