Exploring marine genomic observation data

Genomic observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

• Partners: Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
• Period: since June 2012
• Geographical coverage: Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone and Southern Bight of the North Sea
• Taxonomic coverage: Several Bacteria and Eukaryota phylums
• Moratorium: None
• Data quality: Validated

How to interpret this dataset

Query options

• Timeframe: Starting and stopping date for the query.

Available columns

• Project: Project in charge of sampling.
• Station: Name or code of sampling station.
• TripAction: Unique identifier to recognize actions taken aboard the RV Simon Stevin.
• ActionType: The type of sampling equipment.
• OTUId: Unique identifier for each Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU)
• Sequences: Amount of sequences assigned to Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU).
• MarkerGene: Marker gene that was used for barcoding.
• Time: Time in UTC, beginning of sample timeperiod.
• Longitude: Center longitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
• Latitude: Center latitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
• Domain: Taxonomic group Domain.
• SuperPhylum: Taxonomic group SuperPhylum.
• Phylum: Taxonomic group Phylum.
• Class: Taxonomic group Class.
• Order: Taxonomic group Order.
• Family: Taxonomic group Family.
• Genus: Taxonomic group Genus.
• Species: Taxonomic group of organisms or group of artefacts.
  
• AphiaID: Unique and persistent identifier of the taxon in marinespecies.org (WoRMS).

Abstract

In the framework of the Lifewatch marine observatory a number of fixed stations on the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS) are visited on a monthly or seasonal basis using the RV Simon Stevin. A grid of nine stations covers the coastal zone and are sampled monthly. Eight additional stations, located further at sea, are sampled on a seasonal basis.

This dataset contains quality controlled taxonomic diversity data based on NGS amplicon sequencing and DNA metabarcoding in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS) and the Southern Bight of the North Sea, since 2014. Data is collected through various projects, such as GEANS, LifeWatch, Jerico, Jerico-Next, OSD Summer Solstice, OSD12x and Emo-BON.

How to cite these data

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2016): LifeWatch observatory data: genomic observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. https://doi.org/10.14284/538. Accessed through the LifeWatch Data Explorer / lwdataexplorer R package.

Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Please acknowledge as: This work makes use of the LifeWatch observation data and infrastructure (provided by VLIZ) funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.

These data are also available in the R language with the lwdataxplorer package.