How to get Positive Control gut or Vaginal microbiome dataset

Question

[eli_bayat]

Hi,

I am working on a new filtering method to remove spurious taxa, and I want to validate my method by applying it on Mock community data. I am looking for a dataset for which I know how many true signal (True Taxa) I have versus noise (contaminant,...). Any help to get this dataset would be appreciated.

[Joe]

Only mock community datasets I'm aware of are: https://lomanlab.github.io/mockcommunity/

I don't know if these are any use to you.

[Asaf]

There's another mock community here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05555-0