Biology & Life Sciences

Oceanic Metagenomics Collection

Published May 21, 2019 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

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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PLOS Biology Global Ocean Sampling Collection
March 13, 2007 Hemai Parthasarathy, Emma Hill, Catriona MacCallum

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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050075

PLOS Biology CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics
March 13, 2007 Rekha Seshadri, Saul A Kravitz, Larry Smarr, Paul Gilna, Marvin Frazier

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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050074

PLOS Biology Sorcerer II: The Search for Microbial Diversity Roils the Waters
March 13, 2007 Henry Nicholls

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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050082

PLOS Biology Environmental Shotgun Sequencing: Its Potential and Challenges for Studying the Hidden World of Microbes
March 13, 2007 Jonathan A Eisen

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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050085

PLOS Biology Untapped Bounty: Sampling the Seas to Survey Microbial Biodiversity
March 13, 2007 Liza Gross

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10.1371/journal.pone.0001456

PLOS ONE The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples
January 23, 2008 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
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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050017

PLOS Biology Structural and Functional Diversity of the Microbial Kinome
March 13, 2007 Natarajan Kannan, Susan S Taylor, Yufeng Zhai, J. Craig Venter, Gerard Manning
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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016

PLOS Biology The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families
March 13, 2007 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
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10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077

PLOS Biology The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific
March 13, 2007 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