The News
New Studies Find a Wealth of Oceanic Diversity
by Joe Palca
All Things Considered, March 13, 2007 · Scientists usually like to tout how much they know about a topic. But three new papers in the journal PLoS Biology underscore how much scientists don't know about life in the Earth's oceans.
By analyzing the DNA of microorganisms found in a range of water samples, the scientists found many new species and proteins.
The project began four years ago, when Craig Venter had an interesting idea. He's the geneticist and entrepreneur who helped sequence the human genome.

The Research
Read the research behind this story in PLoS Biology.
1. The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific .

2. The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Expanding the Universe of Protein Families .

3. Structural and Functional Diversity of the Microbial Kinome.