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The Sea as a Gene Pool

Submitted by fog on Wed, 2012-10-17 18:28

The oceans are full of bacteria. Outwardly, they all look much the same, but there are many
different species living a variety of ways of life. This has led Hanno Teeling, Bernhard Fuchs and
Frank Oliver Glöckner from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen to
analyze bacterial diversity in the oceans with the aid of metagenomics. To do this, they first
throw the whole bacterial genome into one pot, then decode the DNA molecules and sort the
genetic mix back into individual bacterial groups.

Successful first bioinformatics training event in Bremen

Submitted by sandra on Fri, 2012-10-12 10:17

From October 8 to 12, 2012, 12 participants of the Micro B3 project joined the MPI Bremen for a training in sequence analysis and (meta)genome annotation. After a three day introduction in fundamental sequence analysis ranging from databases to pairwise and multiple sequence analysis performed by the Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group of MPI Bremen, Pascal Hingamp from Université de la Méditerranée (alias Aix-Marseille II) introduced L'Annotathon with hands on experiences on real sequences of the Tara Oceans expedition. An expedition to the city of Bremen with a professional tour guide and a nice dinner with all participants and teachers rounded up this interactive and informative first training event.

Tara-Oceans: Global Ocean Study Reveals Unexpected Plankton Populations

Submitted by fog on Fri, 2012-09-28 08:13

Global Ocean Study Reveals Unexpected Plankton Populations

Interview with Chris Bowler (Leader of Micro B3 WP 6) explains how important Diatoms are for our wellbeing on earth. The Tara Oceans research mission across the world's oceans has doubled the number of known plankton species.

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