Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

The GOS datasets were submitted to both NCBI[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=genomeprj&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Overview&list_uids=13694 Global Ocean Sampling Expedition project at the J. Craig Venter Institute, Project ID 13694], National Center for Biotechnology Information, web site accessed 17 Mar 2007 and Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA), a new online resource for marine metagenomics funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, developed by JCVI and hosted by UC San Diego's Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). CAMERA's toolset was developed by JCVI, and reflects the tools used in the initial publication of the GOS datasets.

The Sorcerer II effort has been funded by:

• the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (sequencing and analysis)[https://archive.today/20130416143509/http://www.venterinstitute.org/press/news/news_2007_03_13.php 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
• the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science (sequencing and analysis)
• The J. Craig Venter Institute (vessel operation)
• Moore Foundation seven-year, $24.5 million, grant (CAMERA)

Sorcerer II, a 95-foot sloop, completed a 2-year scientific expedition circumnavigating the globe in mid latitudes collecting samples of microbes in seawater for genetic sequencing and cataloguing. She was designed to be not just a world cruising yacht, but one that would be capable of handling the extremes in latitudes, from equatorial heat and humidity to latitudes between 60 and 70 degrees. SORCERER II's construction is light for performance, but very strong, with her kevlar and E glass laminates, epoxy bonding and carefully chosen core materials.

The vessel was designed by German Frers and carries {{Convert|2400|L|gal}} of water.

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The following list is of the official publications of the project and the J. Craig Venter Institute.

• {{cite journal |doi=10.1126/science.1093857 |pmid=15001713 |title=Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing of the Sargasso Sea |date=2 April 2004 |last1=Venter | first1=JC |authorlink=Craig Venter |journal=Science |volume=304 |issue=5667 |pages=66–74 |issn=0193-4511 |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |location=New York, New York |last2=Remington |first2=K |last3=Heidelberg |first3=JF |last4=Halpern |first4=AL |last5=Rusch |first5=D |last6=Eisen |first6=JA |last7=Wu |first7=D |last8=Paulsen |first8=I |last9=Nelson |first9=KE| display-authors = 8 |bibcode=2004Sci...304...66V|s2cid=1454587 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050016 |title=The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families |date=13 March 2007 |last1=Yooseph |first1=S |last2=Sutton |first2=G |last3=Rusch |first3=DB |last4=Halpern |first4=AL |last5=Williamson |first5=SJ |last6=Remington |first6=K |last7=Eisen |first7=JA |last8=Heidelberg |first8=KB |last9=Manning |first9=G | display-authors = 8|journal=PLOS Biology |volume=5 |issue=3 |page=e16 |pmid=17355171 |pmc=1821046 |issn=1544-9173 |publisher=Public Library of Science |location=USA |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050017 |pmid=17355172 |pmc=1821047 |title=Structural and Functional Diversity of the Microbial Kinome |date=13 March 2007 |last1=Kannan |first1=N |last2=Taylor |first2=SS |last3=Zhai |first3=Y |last4=Venter |first4=JC |authorlink4=Craig Venter |last5=Manning |first5=G |journal=PLOS Biology |volume=5 |issue=3 |page=e17 |issn=1544-9173 |publisher=Public Library of Science |location=USA |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050077 |title=The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific |date=13 March 2007 |last1=Rusch |first1=DB |last2=Halpern |first2=AL |last3=Sutton |first3=G |last4=Heidelberg |first4=KB |last5=Williamson |first5=S |last6=Yooseph |first6=S |last7=Wu |first7=D |last8=Eisen |first8=JA |last9=Hoffman |first9=JM | display-authors = 8|journal=PLOS Biology |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=e77 |issn=1544-9173 |publisher=Public Library of Science |location=USA |pmid=17355176 |pmc=1821060 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |pmid=17504484 |doi=10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01265.x |title=Assessing diversity and biogeography of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in surface waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using the Global Ocean Sampling expedition metagenomes |date=1 June 2007 |last1=Yutin |first1=N |last2=Suzuki |first2=MT |last3=Teeling |first3= H|last4=Weber |first4=M |last5=Venter |first5=JC |authorlink5=Craig Venter |last6=Rusch |first6=DB |last7=Béjà |first7=O |journal=Environmental Microbiology |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=1464–75 |issn=1462-2912 |publisher=Blackwell Science |location=England|bibcode=2007EnvMi...9.1464Y |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03012626/file/emi_1265.pdf }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1038/ismej.2007.67 |date=1 October 2007 |last1=Sharon |first1=I |last2=Tzahor |first2=S |last3=Williamson |first3=S|last4=Shmoish |first4=M |last5=Man-Aharonovich |first5=D |last6=Rusch |first6=DB |last7=Yooseph |first7=S |last8=Zeidner |first8=G |last9=Golden |first9=SS | display-authors = 8|journal=The ISME Journal |volume=1 |issue=6 |pages=492–501 |pmid=18043651 |location=England |publisher=Nature Publishing Group |issn=1751-7362 |title=Viral photosynthetic reaction center genes and transcripts in the marine environment|doi-access=free |bibcode=2007ISMEJ...1..492S }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0001456 |pmid=18213365 |pmc=2186209 |title=The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Metagenomic Characterization of Viruses within Aquatic Microbial Samples |date=23 January 2008 |last1=Williamson |first1=SJ |last2=Rusch |first2=DB |last3=Yooseph |first3=S |last4=Halpern |first4=AL |last5=Heidelberg |first5=KB |last6=Glass |first6=JI |last7=Andrews-Pfannkoch |first7=C |last8=Fadrosh |first8=D |last9=Miller |first9=CS | display-authors = 8|journal=PLoS ONE |volume=3 |issue=1 |page=e1456 |issn=1932-6203 |publisher=Public Library of Science |location=USA|bibcode = 2008PLoSO...3.1456W |editor1-last=Hall |editor1-first=Neil |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01626.x |title=It's all relative: ranking the diversity of aquatic bacterial communities |date=10 September 2008 |last1=Shaw |first1=AK |last2=Halpern |first2=AL |last3=Beeson |first3=K |last4=Tran |first4=B |last5=Venter |first5=JC |authorlink5=Craig Venter |last6=Martiny |first6=JBH |journal=Environmental Microbiology |volume=10 |issue=9 |pages=2200–10 |issn=1462-2912 |publisher=Blackwell Science |location=England |pmid=18637951

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• Landform
• Microorganisms
• Metagenomics

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• {{Official website|https://www.jcvi.org/gos}}
• [http://blogs.jcvi.org/ Official blog of the 2009–10 leg]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120211172233/http://www.kvarkadabra.net/images/articles/20041119104323969_5_original.jpg A large picture of Venter on the stern of the Sorcerer II]
• [http://web.camera.calit2.net/cameraweb/id?CAM_PROJ_GOS GOS data]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from CAMERA

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