Release for manuscript publication (doi:10.1038/nature24621)

Release of the EMP GitHub repository for archiving in Zenodo (DOI to be assigned) for publication of the manuscript on EMP 16S Release 1 in Nature. The title of that manuscript is "A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity", and its DOI is 10.1038/nature24621.

ISME 14

Tagging "release" of EMP data before starting a push to analyze the first ~21k samples.