title: Metagenomic analysis of plastic debris from the North Atlantic and North Pacific garbage patches
design: DNA was extracted from the plastic samples using the Macherey Nagel DNA Nucleo spin soil kit (Nucleo Spin TM Soil kit Macherey-Nagel TM, Dren, Germany) according to the manufacturer's instructions. DNA concentration was measured using a nano Qubit (ThermoFisher). The metagenomic sequencing was performed on a NovaSeq 6000 Illumina sequencing platform at LGC Genomics GmbH, Berlin, Germany.