Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

Data analysis

The GOS datasets were submitted to both NCBI and Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA), a new online resource for marine metagenomics funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, developed by JCVI and hosted by UC San Diego's Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). CAMERA's toolset was developed by JCVI, and reflects the tools used in the initial publication of the GOS datasets.

Funding

The Sorcerer II effort has been funded by:

• the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (sequencing and analysis)
• the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science (sequencing and analysis)
• The J. Craig Venter Institute (vessel operation)
• Moore Foundation seven-year, $24.5 million, grant (CAMERA)

Vessel

Sorcerer II, a 95-foot sloop, completed a 2-year scientific expedition circumnavigating the globe in mid latitudes collecting samples of microbes in seawater for genetic sequencing and cataloguing. She was designed to be not just a world cruising yacht, but one that would be capable of handling the extremes in latitudes, from equatorial heat and humidity to latitudes between 60 and 70 degrees. SORCERER II's construction is light for performance, but very strong, with her kevlar and E glass laminates, epoxy bonding and carefully chosen core materials.

The vessel was designed by German Frers and carries 2400 L of water.

Publications

The following list is of the official publications of the project and the J. Craig Venter Institute.

• {{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01626.x |title=It's all relative: ranking the diversity of aquatic bacterial communities |date=10 September 2008 |last1=Shaw |first1=AK |last2=Halpern |first2=AL |last3=Beeson |first3=K |last4=Tran |first4=B |last5=Venter |first5=JC |author-link5=Craig Venter |last6=Martiny |first6=JBH |journal=Environmental Microbiology |volume=10 |issue=9 |pages=2200–10 |issn=1462-2912 |publisher=Blackwell Science |location=England |pmid=18637951

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References

1. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject Global Ocean Sampling Expedition project at the J. Craig Venter Institute, Project ID 13694], [[National Center for Biotechnology Information]], web site accessed 17 Mar 2007
2. [https://archive.today/20130416143509/http://www.venterinstitute.org/press/news/news_2007_03_13.php More than Six Million New Genes, Thousands of New Protein Families, and Incredible Degree of Microbial Diversity Discovered from First Phase of Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition], 13 March 2007 Press Release, [[J. Craig Venter Institute]]