Synthetic metagenome

Synthetic metagenome generated with randomreads.sh from the BBMap package (v38.79).

Five bacterial genome assemblies were downloaded from NCBI:

name;genome_id;taxid
Thermoplasmatales archaeon I-plasma;GCA_009387875;667138
Patulibacter medicamentivorans;GCF_000240225;1097667
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 2_1_46FAA;GCA_000209385;742723
Enterobacteriaceae bacterium LSJC7;GCA_000302695;1224136
Burkholderia mallei 2002721280;GCF_000011705;370895

200,000 paired reads were generated from each genome by running:

randomreads.sh ref=<genome>.fna out1=<genome>_1.fq out2=<genome>_2.fq reads=200000 paired=t illuminanames=t prefix=<taxid>

The two paired fastq files were concatenated and gzipped separately.