PloS Biology just published a bunch of papers using metagenomics to study the ocean genome. They sailed a yacht from Nova Scotia to the South Pacific, stopping now and then to scoop up a bucket of sea water, filter out the microbes, extract DNA on mass and shotgun sequence them. They discovered enough new proteins to *double* the size of the GenBank database (molecular biology geeks will be impressed by this). Read all about it here. Or just read about it on our blog.
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PloS Biology just published a bunch of papers using metagenomics to study the ocean genome. They sailed a yacht from Nova Scotia to the South Pacific, stopping now and then to scoop up a bucket of sea water, filter out the microbes, extract DNA on mass and shotgun sequence them. They discovered enough new proteins to *double* the size of the GenBank database (molecular biology geeks will be impressed by this). Read all about it here. Or just read about it on our blog.