This work was supported by grants from Academy of Finland [339172 to Alise Ponsero] and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [GBMF 8751 to Bonnie Hurwitz]. Kenneth Schackart acknowledges funding from a PhD training grant through the U.S. National Institutes of Health T32 GM 132008. Jessica Graham acknowledges funding from the MARC undergraduate training grant through the U.S. National Institutes of Health T34 GM 8718.

These datasets include sequences that can be used for evaluating computational tools that detect bacteriophage in metagenomes. Datasheets are supplied for each dataset, and a README describes how to extract each dataset. Once the directories are extracted, there is a README in each directory describing the individual dataset.