Get environmental metadata for BATS from https://bats.bios.asu.edu

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Following data trail of publication

Data Publication: Biller, S., Berube, P., Dooley, K. et al. Marine microbial metagenomes sampled across space and time. Sci Data 5, 180176 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.176

It notes to go to https://bats.bios.asu.edu and use the bottle ids to identify the data records we need.

Let's check out "DATA ACCESS"
https://bats.bios.asu.edu/data/

Continue to "BATS Data"
https://bats.bios.asu.edu/bats-data/

And now bats_bottle.txt (because we have the bottle_IDs)
This takes us to dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1jygi9z845irab8fo22kj/bats_bottle.txt?rlkey=etw7w4c30umb0gkekgi20ec76&e=1&dl=0

Download the file

Has some explanations on the top and then a table below

Removing the explanation lines manually. Also replacing the spaces and commas that are between the column headers with tabs to ensure the table can be properly read