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PLoS Biology: Ocean Metagenomics Collection

The J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition revealed an enormous amount of previously unexplored diversity in the world's oceans. In addition to the research articles, this collection includes commentary and analysis highlighting the achievements and challenges of this work.

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Web Seminar: J. Craig Venter discusses the Global Ocean Sampling expedition and analyses performed on the resulting data. Watch Video. Produced with support from Roche Applied Science.

Zoomable Poster: "Fragment Recruitment of GOS Data to Finished Microbial Genomes" accompanies the research article by Rusch DB, Halpern AL, Sutton G, and colleagues. View Interactive Poster. Produced with support from the J. Craig Venter Institute.

Image Credit: Illustration by Giovanni Maki.

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Global Ocean Sampling Collection

Hemai Parthasarathy, Emma Hill, Catriona MacCallum

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050083

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Untapped Bounty: Sampling the Seas to Survey Microbial Biodiversity

Liza Gross

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050085

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Environmental Shotgun Sequencing: Its Potential and Challenges for Studying the Hidden World of Microbes

Jonathan A Eisen

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050082

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Sorcerer II: The Search for Microbial Diversity Roils the Waters

Henry Nicholls

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050074

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CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics

Rekha Seshadri, Saul A Kravitz, Larry Smarr, Paul Gilna, Marvin Frazier

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050075

Research Articles Top

The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

Douglas B Rusch, Aaron L Halpern, Granger Sutton, Karla B Heidelberg, Shannon Williamson, Shibu Yooseph, Dongying Wu, Jonathan A Eisen, Jeff M Hoffman, Karin Remington, Karen Beeson, Bao Tran, Hamilton Smith, Holly Baden-Tillson, Clare Stewart, Joyce Thorpe, Jason Freeman, Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch, Joseph E Venter, Kelvin Li, Saul Kravitz, John F Heidelberg, Terry Utterback, Yu-Hui Rogers, Luisa I Falcón, Valeria Souza, Germán Bonilla-Rosso, Luis E Eguiarte, David M Karl, Shubha Sathyendranath, Trevor Platt, Eldredge Bermingham, Victor Gallardo, Giselle Tamayo-Castillo, Michael R Ferrari, Robert L Strausberg, Kenneth Nealson, Robert Friedman, Marvin Frazier, J. Craig Venter

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077

The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families

Shibu Yooseph, Granger Sutton, Douglas B Rusch, Aaron L Halpern, Shannon J Williamson, Karin Remington, Jonathan A Eisen, Karla B Heidelberg, Gerard Manning, Weizhong Li, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Piotr Cieplak, Christopher S Miller, Huiying Li, Susan T Mashiyama, Marcin P Joachimiak, Christopher van Belle, John-Marc Chandonia, David A Soergel, Yufeng Zhai, Kannan Natarajan, Shaun Lee, Benjamin J Raphael, Vineet Bafna, Robert Friedman, Steven E Brenner, Adam Godzik, David Eisenberg, Jack E Dixon, Susan S Taylor, Robert L Strausberg, Marvin Frazier, J. Craig Venter

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016

Structural and Functional Diversity of the Microbial Kinome

Natarajan Kannan, Susan S Taylor, Yufeng Zhai, J. Craig Venter, Gerard Manning

PLoS Biology:
Published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050017

The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples

Shannon J. Williamson, Douglas B. Rusch, Shibu Yooseph, Aaron L. Halpern, Karla B. Heidelberg, John I. Glass, Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch, Douglas Fadrosh, Christopher S. Miller, Granger Sutton, Marvin Frazier, J. Craig Venter

PLoS ONE:
Published 23 Jan 2008 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0001456