This README_CrumpEtAl2021_DNAmetabarcodingDataset.txt file was generated on 2021-01-26 by Sarah Crump.

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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Title of Dataset: CrumpEtAl2021_ShotgunDataset

Author Information:

	Principal Investigator: Sarah Crump, INSTAAR, University of Colorado; sarah.crump@colorado.edu
	Associate or Co-investigator: Michael Bunce, Trace & Environmental DNA (TrEnD) Lab, Curtin University
	Associate or Co-investigator: Gifford H. Miller, INSTAAR, University of Colorado
	Associate or Co-investigator: Beth Shapiro, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz
	Associate or Co-investigator: Sam Cutler, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz
	

Date of data collection: 
2020-01 to 2020-04

Geographic location of data collection:
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz

Information about funding sources or sponsorship that supported the collection of the data:
See publication. 


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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Recommended citation for the data:

Citation for and links to publications that cite or use the data:


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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File list (filenames, directory structure (for zipped files) and brief description of all data files):

Summary tables with sample IDs (MB#) and key metadata, including number of raw and filtered reads:
CrumpEtAl2021_ShotgunSummaryTable.csv

Zipped .fastq files for each sample:
CrumpEtAl2021_Shotgun_fastqFiles.zip

**Naming system for each .fastq file is "MB[MB#]_R[X].fastq" where [MB#] is a four-digit identifier referring 
to MB# (ID) in summary tables and R[X] refers to read 1 or read 2 for paired-end sequencing. 

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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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See publication. 


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 
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See "Data & File Overview"