Seven years of microbial community metagenomes from temperate soils affected by an ongoing coal seam fire

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2024 Jun 11;13(6):e0019824. doi: 10.1128/mra.00198-24. Epub 2024 May 16.

Abstract

We examined the dynamics of soil microbiomes under heat press disturbance from an underground coal mine fire in Centralia, PA. Here, we present metagenomic sequencing and assembly data from soil microbiomes across seven consecutive years at repeatedly sampled fire-affected sites along with unaffected reference sites.

Keywords: Illumina; assembly; contigs; disturbance; high-throughput sequencing; interannual; metagenome; microbial ecology; soil; time series.