title: Metatranscriptomics of arid soil microbial community: RNA-8-S1_S59
design: RNA was extracted from 2 g of soil using the RNeasy PowerSoil Total RNA kit. RNA ribodepletion was performed using a NEBnext rRNA Depletion Kit.  Library preparation was performed using the NEBNext Ultra II Directional RNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina with NEBnext Multiplex UDI Primer Pairs for Illumina. Paired-end sequencing (2x150 bp) was performed in a NovaSeq 6000