I agree that the website is lacking details. If the project is anything like the American Gut Project (which the page suggests), your data will be made availab

I agree that the website is lacking details. If the project is anything like the American Gut Project (which the page suggests), your data will be made available on GitHub [1]. This paper [2] describes the methodology that was used to generate the data for American Gut. [1]: https://github.com/biocore/American-Gut https://github.com/biocore/American-Gut. [2]: Caporaso, J. Gregory, et al. "Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms." The ISME journal 6.8 (2012): 1621-1624.