Exploring microbial diversity across our oceans

Plan for Today

• It’s been two days already and Les Stroud Survivorman still has not caught a microbe

• 3 days without water and you are dead.

• Tara Oceans

• Sunagawa et al. (2015) Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome. Science

• Sunagawa et al. (2015) Supplemental Data

Map of where we are

Survivorman’s goals: today

• seperate,unite

• intersect,setdiff,union

• Inner and outer joins.

• Normalization of the Tara Oceans dataset

• Visualization using heatmaps

Now …

• Will Survivorman succeed and capturing microbes in his tibble on this remote south pacific island?

BIOL 480 on location

© M Hallett, 2020 Concordia University