Baltic plankton mapped

Baltic plankton.

Gene technology researcher Anders Andersson  has led an international partnership to map Baltic Sea plankton. Via gene sequencing, genes from a third of these tiny water-based organisms have been studied in closer detail. This metagenomic binning offers researchers the opportunity to predict the ecological niche of individual species, via machine learning. The research results have been published at: doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0856-x

Text Christer Gummeson