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.
Related Links: J. Craig Venter Institute's Sorcerer II Expedition site, CAMERA database, Biocompare
Image Credit: Illustration by Giovanni Maki.
PLOS Biology: published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077
PLOS Biology: published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016
PLOS Biology: published 13 Mar 2007 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050017
PLOS ONE: published 23 Jan 2008 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0001456