A total of 219 metagenome-assembled genomes of microorganisms from Icelandic marine waters

Marine microorganisms contribute to the health of global ocean by supporting marine food web and regulating biogeochemical cycles. Assessing microbial diversity is a crucial step towards understanding ocean. The waters surrounding Iceland are complex environment where relatively warm salty from Atlantic cool down sink deep. Microbial studies in this area have focused on photosynthetic micro- nanoplankton mainly using microscopy chlorophyll measurements. However, function bacterial archaeal picoplankton remains unknown. Here, we used co-assembly approach supported mock community reconstruct metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) 31 metagenomes sea surface seafloor four oceanographic sampling stations sampled between 2015 2018. resulting 219 MAGs include 191 bacterial, 26 two eukaryotic bridge gap our current knowledge microbiome.