Deep metatranscriptomic sequencing data of wastewater from Los Angeles, USA, 2023-2024.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater monitoring for pathogen detection has greatly advanced over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. While most wastewater surveillance programs only target specific pathogens using qPCR or amplicon sequencing, untargeted wastewater metatranscriptomic sequencing (W-MTS) offers broader detection capabilities. However, there is a lack of data allowing the comparison of W-MTS with more established detection methods. Here we present a dataset consisting of 13.1 terabases (43B read pairs) of untargeted Illumina W-MTS data, generated from 20 wastewater samples, with 1.4B to 2.8B 150 bp read pairs per sample. Wastewater samples were collected between December 2023 and April 2024 at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant (HWRP), Los Angeles, USA, serving a population of approximately 4 millio

SUBMITTER: Grimm SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12873240 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature