Microbial communities are essential components of forest ecosystems, influencing health, growth, and fitness of forest trees and providing essential functions for soil nutrient cycling processes. I am involved in several project where we are using RNA-Seq data from tree root samples to functionally and taxonomically characterise microbial communities associated with forest trees. This storage project will be used to store data and intermediate results resulting from several RNA-Seq and amplicon sequencing datasets for different projects, all in the context of forest microbial communities.