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Published Online March 4, 2004
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1097146

Perspectives

Submitted on February 25, 2004
Accepted on February 27, 2004

Shotgun Sequencing in the Sea: A Blast from the Past?

Paul G. Falkowski 1* Colomban de Vargas 2

1 Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program and the Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
2 Molecular Ecology and Evolution of Open Ocean Plankton, Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: falko{at}imcs.rutgers.edu.

The enormous microbial diversity in the world's oceans is only starting to be explored. In their Perspective, Falkowski and de Vargas discuss a major effort using high-throughput DNA sequencing and computational genomics to identify all of the microbes in 1500 liters of surface seawater from the North Atlantic (Venter et al.).


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