Vertical stratification of the water microbiome in an electric water heater tank

The raw sequence reads have been submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the BioProject PRJNA961987 with the following BioSample numbers: SAMN39596420, SAMN39596421, SAMN39596422, SAMN39596423, SAMN39596424, SAMN39596425, SAMN39596426, SAMN39596427, SAMN39596428, SAMN39596429, SAMN39596430, SAMN39596431, SAMN39596432, SAMN39596433, SAMN39596434, SAMN39596435, SAMN39596436, SAMN39596437, and SAMN39596438.

A table (Table_diversity_indices.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), diversity indices (Chao and Shannon), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples.

A table (Table_Legiolert.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), abundance of cultured Legionella pneumophila (MPN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples.

A table (Table_qPCR_L_pneumophila.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of L. pneumophila (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples.

A table (Table_qPCR_Legionella.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of Legionella spp. (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples.

A table (Table_qPCR_Mycobacterium.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of Mycobacterium spp. (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples.

A table (Table_qPCR_V_vermiformis.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of V. vermiformis (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples.

An abundance matrix (Table_taxonomy.xlsx) contains rows as taxonomic lineage, columns as samples, and entries representing the abundance of each lineage as a number of reads obtained for each Set of samples.

A table (Table_water_temperature.xlsx) contains rows as water samples with ID, columns as temperature (°C and °F) measured from the top, bottom and drain of the water tank for each Set of samples.

This dataset is associated with the following publication:
Gomez-Alvarez, V., H. Ryu, M. McNeely, C. Muhlen, D. Williams, D. Lytle, and L. Boczek. Vertical Stratification of the Water Microbiome in an Electric Water Heater Tank: implications for premise plumbing opportunistic pathogens. JOURNAL OF WATER AND HEALTH. IWA Publishing, London, UK, 22(12): 2346–2357, (2024).