RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of <em>Tara</em> Oceans Data
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 019117
DO 10.1101/019117
A1 Stéphane Pesant
A1 Fabrice Not
A1 Marc Picheral
A1 Stefanie Kandels-Lewis
A1 Noan Le Bescot
A1 Gabriel Gorsky
A1 Daniele Iudicone
A1 Eric Karsenti
A1 Sabrina Speich
A1 Romain Troublé
A1 Céline Dimier
A1 Sarah Searson
A1 Tara Oceans Consortium Coordinators
YR 2015
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/05/08/019117.abstract
AB The Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013) sampled contrasting ecosystems of the world oceans, collecting environmental data and plankton, from viruses to metazoans, for later analysis using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. It surveyed 210 ecosystems in 20 biogeographic provinces, collecting over 35000 samples of seawater and plankton. The interpretation of such an extensive collection of samples in their ecological context requires means to explore, assess and access raw and validated data sets. To address this challenge, the Tara Oceans Consortium offers open science resources, including the use of open access archives for nucleotides (ENA) and for environmental, biogeochemical, taxonomic and morphological data (PANGAEA), and the development of on line discovery tools and collaborative annotation tools for sequences and images. Here, we present an overview of Tara Oceans Data, and we provide detailed registries (data sets) of all campaigns (from port-to-port), stations and sampling events.