- Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
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CAMERA 
Content Description Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis Contact Research center University of California San Diego Laboratory Center for Research on Biological Systems Primary Citation PMID 21045053 Release date 2007 Access Website http://camera.calit2.net/ Tools Miscellaneous CAMERA, or the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, is a microbial ecology research project[1][2][3] which was announced in January 2006.[4]
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Funding
The project aims to serve the needs of the microbial ecology research community by creating a vast data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource that will address many of the unique challenges of metagenomic analysis. The project is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation which awarded a 7-year, $24.5-million research grant to the CAMERA project, beginning in January 2006.[5]
Work
CAMERA is devoted to serving the needs of scientists studying the complexity of organisms as they function in natural ecosystems.[6] The group is managed by:[6]
- Principal Investigator Larry Smarr (UCSD)
- Executive Director Paul Gilna (UCSD)
CAMERA helps scientists access and work with data from the Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling Expedition.[7] In 2007, the GOS dataset was the largest ever released in the public domain.[8] The group also places many other datasets for download on its website.[9]
See also
References
- ^ Sun, Shulei; Chen Jing, Li Weizhong, Altintas Ilkay, Lin Abel, Peltier Steve, Stocks Karen, Allen Eric E, Ellisman Mark, Grethe Jeffrey, Wooley John (Jan 2011). "Community cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis: the CAMERA resource" (in eng). Nucleic Acids Res. (England) 39 (Database issue): D546-51. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1102. PMID 21045053.
- ^ PubMed Central: "CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics"
- ^ DOE Microbial Genomics: Microbial Genome Databases
- ^ Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Leading Department of Energy Genome Scientist to Direct Joint Marine Microbial Metagenomics Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (press release)
- ^ CAMERA: What is CAMERA?
- ^ a b CAMERA: Frequently Asked Questions
- ^ Anchorage Daily News: Scientist stalks wily microbes from sailboat
- ^ Science Daily: Millions Of New Genes, Thousands Of New Protein Families Found In Ocean Sampling Expedition (press release)
- ^ CAMERA: Full Datasets
External links
Categories:- Bioinformatics
- Ecology
- Genome projects
- Environmental microbiology
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