The Ocean Sampling Day Consortium

Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world’s oceans. It is a simultaneous global mega-sequencing campaign aiming to generate the largest standardized microbial data set in a single day. This will be achievable only through the coordinated efforts of an Ocean Sampling Day Consortium, supportive partnerships and networks between sites. This commentary outlines the establishment, function and aims of the Consortium and describes our vision for a sustainable study of marine microbial communities and their embedded functional traits

Brainstorming - Questions to address

We could add one component for each question/topic that we wish to address during EMOSE 201

Data - Banyuls comparative experiment

The Banyuls Experiment was a three-days fieldwork aimed at generating a new set of data that we can use for the Inter-Comparison of Marine Plankton Metagenome Analysis Methods. It includes "whole water" and "size-fractionated" filtrations using "sterivex" and "142mm-diam-membranes", and compares filtration volumes of 1, 2.5, 10, 100 Litres. Enough replicates from the same water mass ("true" sampling replicates) are available to pool samples and obtain the equivalent of 500L and 1000L samples. Sequencing was done swiftly by Genoscope during the summer holidays, sequences are now (soon) publicly available at ENA and are currently going through the analysis pipeline of EBI