I have spent a good hour reading about NCBI BioSamples and BioProjects and using their searches to download data from environments that have metadata for "polar" and "marine" environments that were produced by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing.
I post this thread b/c I have had very little success in finding useful datasets. I expected that my search criteria are simple enough to generate a decent list of datasets, but I've had to manually pick through a very non-specific list of hits.
Can someone comment on a good workflow to achieve what I am aiming at, or provide me with a good walk-through? Surely, this kind of basic data retrieval is common practice and should be easier than I'm finding it... right?
Thanks in advance,
Roli
I post this thread b/c I have had very little success in finding useful datasets. I expected that my search criteria are simple enough to generate a decent list of datasets, but I've had to manually pick through a very non-specific list of hits.
Can someone comment on a good workflow to achieve what I am aiming at, or provide me with a good walk-through? Surely, this kind of basic data retrieval is common practice and should be easier than I'm finding it... right?
Thanks in advance,
Roli
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