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Editorial
. 2007 Mar;5(3):e83.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050083.

Global ocean sampling collection

Hemai Parthasarathy, Emma Hill, Catriona MacCallum
Editorial

Global ocean sampling collection

Hemai Parthasarathy et al. PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar.

Abstract

This issue of PLoS Biology features research articles from the J. Craig Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling expedition, as well as accompanying material highlighting the promise, significance, and challenges of metagenomics.

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  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: expanding the universe of protein families.
    Yooseph S, Sutton G, Rusch DB, Halpern AL, Williamson SJ, Remington K, Eisen JA, Heidelberg KB, Manning G, Li W, Jaroszewski L, Cieplak P, Miller CS, Li H, Mashiyama ST, Joachimiak MP, van Belle C, Chandonia JM, Soergel DA, Zhai Y, Natarajan K, Lee S, Raphael BJ, Bafna V, Friedman R, Brenner SE, Godzik A, Eisenberg D, Dixon JE, Taylor SS, Strausberg RL, Frazier M, Venter JC. Yooseph S, et al. PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar;5(3):e16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016. PLoS Biol. 2007. PMID: 17355171 Free PMC article.
  • Structural and functional diversity of the microbial kinome.
    Kannan N, Taylor SS, Zhai Y, Venter JC, Manning G. Kannan N, et al. PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar;5(3):e17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050017. PLoS Biol. 2007. PMID: 17355172 Free PMC article.
  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: northwest Atlantic through eastern tropical Pacific.
    Rusch DB, Halpern AL, Sutton G, Heidelberg KB, Williamson S, Yooseph S, Wu D, Eisen JA, Hoffman JM, Remington K, Beeson K, Tran B, Smith H, Baden-Tillson H, Stewart C, Thorpe J, Freeman J, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Venter JE, Li K, Kravitz S, Heidelberg JF, Utterback T, Rogers YH, Falcón LI, Souza V, Bonilla-Rosso G, Eguiarte LE, Karl DM, Sathyendranath S, Platt T, Bermingham E, Gallardo V, Tamayo-Castillo G, Ferrari MR, Strausberg RL, Nealson K, Friedman R, Frazier M, Venter JC. Rusch DB, et al. PLoS Biol. 2007 Mar;5(3):e77. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077. PLoS Biol. 2007. PMID: 17355176 Free PMC article.

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