From ecfac34ec27170906ddf06848cc9724c024e3de2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "James A. Fellows Yates" <jfy133@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:55:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add CI test data information to README

Added CI test data section with details on synthetic reads.
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 README.md | 4 ++++
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 This branch contains test data for the [nf-core/mag](https://github.com/nf-core/mag) pipeline.
 
+## CI test data
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+The `test_minigut` test datasets are synthetic reads generated from a single genome of a mammalian-gut-residing Bacteroides fragilis* YCH46 bacterium (NCBI accession: NC_006347).
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 ## Full-size test data
 
 The `manifext.full.tsv` links to gut metagenome data of antibiotic-treated patients originating from [Bertrand et al. _Nature Biotechnology_ (2019)](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0191-2).