Table 5. human oral and stool metatranscriptome datasets queried for Obelisks.

Human metatranscriptomic datasets used for Supplementary Figure 9 with sampled niche and library preparation method indicated.

bioProject	study	niche	RNA-seq library method
PRJNA398089	Lloyd-Price et al. 2019 20	stool	Modified RNAtag-seq
PRJNA940499	Maghini and Dvorak et al. 2023 79	stool	Illumina stranded total rna prep
PRJNA812699	Jacobs et al. 2023 112	stool	Viomega
PRJNA678453	Belstrøm and Constancias et al. 2021 37	oral	Illumina TruSeq Stranded mRNA
PRJNA917314	Tong et al. 2023 113	oral	NEBNext Small RNA-seq