Detailed information on the methodology (pdf), including:
   Satellite measurements
   Assigning Taxonomic Identities to ARISA peaks
   Environmental parameter variability
   Seasonal variability of microbial community structure
   Mantel test approach
   Interannual variability of microbial community structure
   Alpha diversity:
       Variability between depths
       Relation to season
       Relation to community similarity between depths
       Relation to community change
       Environmental parameters and community structure: Mantel tests
   Temporal dynamics of microbial taxa over time
       Transformations
       Taxonomic Groups
       OTUs

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Noble RT, Fuhrman JA. (1998). Use of SYBR Green I for rapid epifluorescence counts of marine viruses and bacteria. Aquat. Microb. Ecol 14: 113-118.

Parsons TR (1984) A manual of chemical and biological methods for seawater analysis, 1st ed. Pergamon Press, Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York

Patel A, Noble RT, Steele JA, Schwalbach MS, Hewson I, Fuhrman JA. (2007). Virus and prokaryote enumeration from planktonic aquatic environments by
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BCO-DMO Processing:

- split environmental and biological data into separate datasets to reduce overall size of each dataset
- added conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
- renamed parameters to BCO-DMO standard or more descriptive terms
- moved columns amoA through bcsim89 before the ARISA_# columns
- transformed ARISA_####.### columns to rows with new column 'arisa_frag' for the arisa name and 'rel_abund' for the values
- replaced NA with nd
- reformated data from m/d/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd
- changed year from 1 or 2 digits to 4 digits
- added lat, lon, cruise_id, cruise_id2
- missing depth data added from CTD logs where available