ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This article is contribution number XXX of Tara Oceans.
The authors would like to thank Guillem Salazar for providing us with
the Malaspina-2010 16S-V4V5 OTU tables. We are grateful for the
contribution of the ECOMAP team at Roscoff Marine Station, and in
particular Miguel Méndez Sandin and Fabrice Not, for testing the web
server and suggesting functionalities. Thanks also to Noan Le Bescot for
the plankton drawing used on the interfaces. The web server is hosted by
the OSU Pythéas cluster with the help of Cyrille Blanpain and the SIP
members. Adrien Malgoyre from the SIP is thanked for the development of
the OSU Pythéas gitlab. We are grateful to the Institut Français de
Bioinformatique for providing help and computing resources. TaraOceans (which includes both the Tara Oceans and TaraOceans Polar Circle expeditions) would not exist without the leadership
of the Tara Expeditions Foundation and the continuous support of
23 institutes (http://oceans.taraexpeditions.org). We further thank the
commitment of the following sponsors: CNRS (in particular Groupement de
Recherche GDR3280 and the Research Federation for the study of Global
Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans-GOSEE),
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genoscope/CEA, The French
Ministry of Research, and the French Government ‘Investissements
d’Avenir’ programmes, FRANCE GENOMIQUE, MEMO LIFE and PSL* Research
University. We also thank the support and commitment of agnès b. and
Etienne Bourgois, the Prince Albert II de Monaco Foundation, the Veolia
Foundation, Region Bretagne, Lorient Agglomeration, Serge Ferrari,
Worldcourier, and KAUST. The global sampling effort was enabled by
countless scientists and crew who sampled aboard the Tara from
2009-2013, and we thank MERCATOR-CORIOLIS and ACRI-ST for providing
daily satellite data during the expeditions. We are also grateful to the
countries who graciously granted sampling permissions. The authors
declare that all data reported herein are fully and freely available
from the date of publication, with no restrictions, and that all of the
analyses, publications, and ownership of data are free from legal
entanglement or restriction by the various nations whose waters theTara Oceans expeditions.
This work was supported by the French Government ‘Investissements
d’Avenir’ programmes OCEANOMICS (ANR-11-BTBR-0008), FRANCE GENOMIQUE
(ANR-10-INBS-09-08), MEMO LIFE (ANR-10-LABX-54), and PSL* Research
University (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02).