The Earth Microbiome project: successes and aspirations

The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) was launched in August 2010, with the ambitious aim of constructing a global catalogue of the uncultured microbial diversity of this planet. The primary vision of the Earth Microbiome Project, to process the microbial diversity and functional potential from approxi...

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Published in:BMC biology Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 69
Main Authors: Gilbert, Jack A, Jansson, Janet K, Knight, Rob
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London BioMed Central 22.08.2014
BioMed Central Ltd
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Archaea - classification
Archaea - genetics
Bacteria - classification
Bacteria - genetics
BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biodiversity
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Comment
Earth Microbiome Project
Ecosystem
Freshwater Lake Sediment
Human Microbiome Project
John Templeton Foundation
Life Sciences
Microbiota
Quantitative Insight Into Microbial Ecology
John Templeton Foundation
Freshwater Lake Sediment
Quantitative Insight Into Microbial Ecology
Earth Microbiome Project
Human Microbiome Project
ISSN:1741-7007, 1741-7007
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Summary:The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) was launched in August 2010, with the ambitious aim of constructing a global catalogue of the uncultured microbial diversity of this planet. The primary vision of the Earth Microbiome Project, to process the microbial diversity and functional potential from approximately 200,000 environmental samples, marks it as an undertaking so massive that it was at first considered to be pure folly (as late as 2012, Jonathan Eisen was quoted in Nature as saying Knight and Gilbert literally talk about sampling the entire planet. It is ludicrous and not feasible - yet they are doing it [1]).
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ISSN:1741-7007
1741-7007
DOI:10.1186/s12915-014-0069-1