Blue-Cloud Plankton Genomics Virtual Lab

The Plankton Genomics Virtual Lab is led by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and created by the Faculty of Sciences at Sorbonne University.

The aim of the plankton genomic demonstrator is to showcase a deep assessment of plankton distributions by mining data across biomolecular, imaging and environmental domains. It will draw on the outputs of initiatives such as Tara Oceans and will focus on two key objectives:

•   Notebook 1: Exploring genetic data & identifying clusters containing unknown genes
  •   Discovery of as yet undescribed biodiversity from genetic and morphological signals from the characterisation of their geographical distributions, co-occurrences/exclusions and correlation with environmental contexts.
•   Notebook 2: Mapping the geographic distribution of plankton functional gene clusters using habitat prediction models
  •   Exploration of genetic and morphological markers of plankton diversity and abundance, in particular the new ones discovered above, to predict their spatio-temporal distribution and serve as high-resolution EOVs for biological processes.

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