16S rRNA Italian Omics Marine Observatory
The Italian Observatory Network of Marine Biodiversity aims to study, explore, monitor, and enhance the biological richness of Mediterranean marine ecosystems, building on Omics disciplines and technologies. Since January 2024, it has been producing a comprehensive dataset of metagenomic (WGS) and metabarcoding data (16S V4V5, 18S V4, 18S V9, ITS2, COI) on marine biodiversity, collected monthly across different size fractions in surface and bottom waters at four marine stations of the Italian LTER network: Portofino Promontory (Ligurian Sea), MedaSenigallia Station (Central Adriatic Sea), Gulf of Naples (Central Tyrrhenian Sea), and Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea).