Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

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The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) is a Ocean exploration Genome project with the goal of assessing the genetic diversity in marine microbial communities and to understand their role in nature's fundamental processes. Begun as a Sargasso Sea pilot sampling project in August 2003, Craig Venter announced the full Expedition on 4 March 2004^{[citation needed]}. The project, which used Craig Venter's personal sloop, Sorcerer II, started in Halifax, Canada and circumnavigated the globe finishing back in the U.S. in January 2006. The expedition sampled water from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the Eastern Tropical Pacific while undertaking a two year circumnavigation. Associated with the The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, the project has been cited by at least five scientific papers as of Mar 07 .^[1][2]

Contents 1 Data Analysis 2 Funding 3 See also 4 Links 5 References

[edit] Data Analysis

To manage the data, a online database was launched along with a project called the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) developed by UC San Diego's Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) in partnership with JCVI and UCSD’s Center for Earth Observations and Applications (CEOA) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.^[2]

[edit] Funding

The Sorcerer II effort has been funded by:

• the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Sequencing and analysis)^[2]
• the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science (Sequencing and analysis)^[2]
• The J. Craig Venter Institute (vessel operation)^[2]
• Moore Foundation seven year, $24.5 million, grant (CAMERA)^[2]

[edit] See also

• The Institute for Genomic Research
• Craig Venter
• marine biology
• Landform
• Microorganisms

[edit] Links

• GOS on PLoS, a Open Access Journal. Much information to source from this link for this article.

[edit] References

1. ^ Global Ocean Sampling Expedition project at The Center for the Advancement of Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Project ID 13694, National Center for Biotechnology Information, web site accessed Mar 17, 2007
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f} 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