Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

The two-year journey, which used Craig Venter's personal yacht, originated in Halifax, Canada, circumnavigated the globe and terminated in the U.S. in January 2006.

The expedition sampled water from Halifax, Nova Scotia to the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.

The GOS datasets were submitted to both NCBI[1] and Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA), a new online resource for marine metagenomics funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, developed by JCVI and hosted by UC San Diego's Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

CAMERA's toolset was developed by JCVI, and reflects the tools used in the initial publication of the GOS datasets.

SORCERER II's construction is light for performance, but very strong, with her kevlar and E glass laminates, epoxy bonding and carefully chosen core materials.