Fig. 4

Details on example queries. a Selecting in the “Search by taxonomy” section the “Alcaligenaceae”, “All Depths”, “All Sequence Types” and “All TARA Stations” options, the total number of elements found for each Tag is shown. A button allows to download the sequences belonging to each Tag (“Get fasta” green boxes). The Tara stations associated to each query are also shown on the map by green pointers. b Typing in the “Search by sequence ID” field the “TARA-004-DCM_215” contig ID, several details are shown including the sequence, its length, the taxonomic affiliation, the Tara station it belongs to, the sampling depth, the sampling fraction. It is also possible to view the list of all the miTAGs assembled on that contig (“Show miTAGs” red box), or to download the corresponding miTAGs FASTA file (“Get miTAGs fasta” green box)