Methodology used in the lab for molecular analyses and links to the Sequence Read Archive of selected samples from the Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013)

The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) sampled the world oceans on board a 36 m long schooner, collecting environmental data and organisms from viruses to planktonic metazoans for later analyses using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. Tara Oceans Data are particularly suited to study the genetic, morphological and functional diversity of plankton. The present data set provides URLs to sequence read files available from samples analysed to date, along with their corresponding contextual data and sequencing methods described in details in the companion data article.