Viral Regulation of Sulfur Cycling in Urban Sewer Sediments

Metagenomic and viromic data explores viral characteristics and virus-host interactions in sewer sediments from three distinct urban functional areas. The study includes a global prevalence analysis of key viral hosts across sewers in 76 cities from six countries. It investigates the dual role of viruses as metabolic tuners in sulfur dynamics and their potential for alleviating sewer corrosion.

Use Cases

• Analyze viral infection strategy (lytic vs. lysogenic) across sewer sediments from commercial, residential, and multifunctional urban areas.
• Model the relationship between nutrient levels, acidification, and host density to predict viral infection dynamics.
• Investigate the prevalence and distribution of auxiliary metabolic genes related to sulfate reduction across different sewer sediment samples.
• Correlate viral lysis tendencies with potential sulfide formation rates to assess corrosion mitigation strategies.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a study spanning sewer sediments from three distinct types of urban functional areas.
• Findings are contextualized with a global analysis referencing sewer systems in 76 cities across six countries.
• Dataset combines metagenomic and viromic analytical approaches to explore virus-host interactions.

Limitations

• The dataset is small at 4.6 MB, indicating limited raw data volume for large-scale machine learning training.
• Specific sample counts, row numbers, and column structures are not provided, limiting precise assessment of data scale and features.
• As a focused research output, the data may have limited generalizability to sewer systems outside the studied urban functional profiles.

Provenance

Source

Figshare, authored by Bang Ni.

Collection Method

Data gathered through metagenomics and viromics analysis of sewer sediment samples.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Sewer sediments from urban functional areas; global context includes 76 cities across six countries.