Shotgun Iontorrent metagenomic dataset from Lake Mgobezeleni
Microbial biomass was collected by filtration of between 100  200 mL of the water through 0.22m Polyethersulfone (PES) membranes . gDNA was extracted Power Water DNA Isolation Kit (MoBio, West Carlsbad, CA) . Metagenomic sequence libraries were generated using Ion Torrent sequencing platforms at the Central Analytical Facilities at Stellenbosch University