Larry Smarr Quotations

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender, and then sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender and sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

In the ocean, you have a very dense ecology of microbes, particularly in the surface.

This program is a terrific example of the blending of science and entertainment. It fits wonderfully with Calit2's mission of helping the public understand what research organizations like ours are doing and how it might impact their lives.

They literally throw a bucket overboard and bring it back up and take that water, with probably several thousand species of microbes, and they shotgun-sequence it and reconstruct what all the species were.

This is an ocean planet. .Ê.Ê. To understand ourselves after all, we're basically water we really have to understand our own planet.