title: Investigating the Role of Metaproteomics in Inhibition Mechanisms of Microbial Corrosion on Metal surfaces using Eco-Friendly Inhibitors
design: 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing was performed to characterize the microbial community present in cooling tower water samples collected from an industrial wastewater system. DNA was extracted and the 16S rRNA gene regions were amplified using PCR. Sequencing was performed on the Illumina platform generating paired-end reads of approximately 301 bp. Raw reads were quality checked using FastQC and processed using standard pipelines including trimming and denoising (DADA2) prior to taxonomic analysis.