Table 1_Shotgun metagenomic and phenotypic characterization of indigenous lactic acid bact

Five artisanal raw milk cheeses were analyzed using shotgun metagenomics and culture-based methods. The study recovered 12 lactic acid bacteria isolates and identified abundant metabolic pathways linked to carbon and nitrogen metabolism. This dataset was created by James N. Nelon and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify novel starter culture candidates based on desirable fermentation properties like coagulation time and final pH.
• Analyze microbial community composition and functional potential in artisanal cheese microbiomes.
• Correlate metagenomic functional pathways with dairy adaptation traits in lactic acid bacteria.
• Compare fatty acid profiles between fermented products and unfermented controls.

Strengths

• Includes phenotypic data for five L. lactis strains, detailing coagulation within 6 hours and final pH values of 4.5.
• Functional profiling identified abundant metabolic pathways from metagenome-assembled genomes.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (22.5 KB), suggesting limited scope or summary-level data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Integrated shotgun metagenomic and culture-based pipeline applied to five artisanal cheeses.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:42:28; freshness should be verified.