Aside from these recommendations, we also urge researchers to make data publicly available, both raw reads and final ASV and/or OTU sequences. Raw read datasets will become an invaluable resource for future work integrating many wocDNA metabarcoding studies across spatial and temporal scales, with continuing development and improvement of bioinformatic pipelines allowing for forward-compatibility of the data as analytical tools continue to evolve. Uploading ASV and/or OTU sequences, even with incomplete taxonomy, improves the capability of methods for taxonomic assignment that draw on these resources and provides fertile datasets for future development of bioinformatic methods.