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Community Page CAMERA: A Community Resource for Metagenomics * Rekha Seshadri , Saul A. Kravitz, Larry Smarr, Paul Gilna, Marvin Frazier and complex interactions that impact global carbon cycles and ocean (CAMERA) project [1] is an important ?rst step in attempting to bridge these gaps and in developing global methods for monitoring microbial communities in the ocean and their response to environmental changes. The aim is to create a rich, distinctive data repository and bioinformatics tools resource that will address many of the unique challenges of metagenomics and enable researchers to unravel the biology of environmental microorganisms (Figure 1). CAMERA’s database includes environmental metagenomic and genomic sequence data, associated environmental productivity. Marine microbes are thought to act as part of the biological conduit that transports carbon dioxide from the surface to the deep oceanic realms. By removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it (in the form of organic matter), marine microorganisms may signi?cantly affect global climate. Although we now have numerous global and real- time methods to measure physical M icrobes are responsible for most of the chemical transformations that are crucial to sustaining life on Earth. Their ability to inhabit almost any environmental niche suggests that they possess an incredible diversity of physiological capabilities. However, we have little to no information on a majority of the millions of microbial species that are predicted to exist, mainly because of our inability to culture them in the laboratory. We invite the research community to submit its metagenomics data to CAMERA. parameters (“metadata”), pre- computed search results, and software tools to support powerful cross-analysis of environmental samples. and chemical parameters within the ocean, few methods or concepts have been developed to measure important microbial processes on a global scale. Even if the technology to make such measure