trabalhos publicados com seu nome sao invariavelmente mais ricos e recheados de dados e analises que os trabalhos feitos por pesquisadores a mesma altura (vide trabalhos sobre o genoma humano). Mas e claro, ele nao mereceria exatamente o premio Nobel por estas atividades, premios estes que deveriam ser atribuido aos verdadeiros inventores das tecnicas por ele popularizadas, se um dia a academia acha-los suficientemente dignos para tanto. Nao obstante, a contribuicao do careca e incalculavel para a ciencia genomica moderna.Aproveito a oportunidade para agradecer ao Sr. Rodrigo pela critica que ajudou a enriquecer a presente discussao, e por me permitir dar credito a nossa amiga norueguesa Vigdis Torsvik, cuja carreira cientifica deve ter decolado depois que teve uma ajudinha vinda do popstar da genomica. Abracos!== Referencias Bibliograficas ==* Angly FE, Felts B, Breitbart M, Salamon P, Edwards RA, Carlson C, Chan AM, Haynes M, Kelley S, Liu H, Mahaffy JM, Mueller JE, Nulton J, Olson R, Parsons R, Rayhawk S, Suttle CA, Rohwer F. The marine viromes of four oceanic regions. PLoS Biol. 2006 Nov;4(11):e368. PubMed PMID: 17090214; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1634881.* Bertin PN, Medigue C, Normand P. Advances in environmental genomics: towards an integrated view of micro-organisms and ecosystems. Microbiology. 2008 Feb;154(Pt 2):347-59. Review. PubMed PMID: 18227239.* Cole JR, Chai B, Farris RJ, Wang Q, Kulam SA, McGarrell DM, Garrity GM, Tiedje JM. The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II): sequences and tools for high-throughput rRNA analysis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jan 1;33(Database issue):D294-6. PubMed PMID: 15608200; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC539992.* Cole JR, Chai B, Farris RJ, Wang Q, Kulam-Syed-Mohideen AS, McGarrell DM, Bandela AM, Cardenas E, Garrity GM, Tiedje JM. The ribosomal database project (RDP-II): introducing myRDP space and quality controlled public data. Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D169-72. Epub 2006 Nov 7. PubMed PMID: 17090583; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1669760.* Cole JR, Chai B, Marsh TL, Farris RJ, Wang Q, Kulam SA, Chandra S, McGarrell DM, Schmidt TM, Garrity GM, Tiedje JM; Ribosomal Database Project. The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II): previewing a new autoaligner that allows regular updates and the new prokaryotic taxonomy. Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jan 1;31(1):442-3. PubMed PMID: 12520046; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC165486.* Cole JR, Wang Q, Cardenas E, Fish J, Chai B, Farris RJ, Kulam-Syed-Mohideen AS, McGarrell DM, Marsh T, Garrity GM, Tiedje JM. The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D141-5. Epub 2008 Nov 12. PubMed PMID: 19004872; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2686447.* Edwards RA, Rodriguez-Brito B, Wegley L, Haynes M, Breitbart M, Peterson DM, Saar MO, Alexander S, Alexander EC Jr, Rohwer F. Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology. BMC Genomics. 2006 Mar 20;7:57. PubMed PMID: 16549033; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1483832.* Ferrer M, Beloqui A, Timmis KN, Golyshin PN. Metagenomics for mining new genetic resources of microbial communities. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol. 2009;16(1-2):109-23. Epub 2008 Oct 29. Review. PubMed PMID: 18957866.* Gianoulis TA, Raes J, Patel PV, Bjornson R, Korbel JO, Letunic I, Yamada T, Paccanaro A, Jensen LJ, Snyder M, Bork P, Gerstein MB. Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics.