The Earth Microbiome Project: The Meeting Report for the 1st International Earth Microbiome Project Conference, Shenzhen, China, June 13th-15th 2011

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA 2 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 3 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Natural Environment Research Council, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon, UK 4 Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA 5 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO USA 6 Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA USA 7 Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 8 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division Berkeley, CA USA 9 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, USA 10 Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands 11 Department of Ecological Science, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 12 DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA 13 Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA