Metagenomic sequencing of microbial plankton during a nutrient perturbation experiment undertaken in mesocosms in the Red Sea.
Approximately 4L of seawater was sampled from the mesocosm and filtered through a 0.2um filter. DNA was extracted using a bead beating and phenol:chloroform methodolgy. Extracted DNA was sequencing on an Illumina HiSeq 2000.