Abstract
Untapped Bounty: Sampling the Seas to Survey Microbial Biodiversity
Highlights
Being invisible to the naked eye, microbes managed to escape scientific scrutiny until the mid-17th century, when Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope
The largest metagenomic dataset collected so far comes from the Sorcerer II expedition, named after the yacht J
The researchers designed the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) expedition to see if collecting more samples would improve their assembly and lead to a better estimate of the number and diversity of microbial genes in the oceans
Summary
Being invisible to the naked eye, microbes managed to escape scientific scrutiny until the mid-17th century, when Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope. The researchers designed the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) expedition to see if collecting more samples would improve their assembly and lead to a better estimate of the number and diversity of microbial genes in the oceans.
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