Analytical and computational advances, opportunities, and challenges in marine organic biogeochemistry in an era of "Omics"

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2020-09-02Author
Steen, Andrew D.
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Kusch, Stephanie
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Abdulla, Hussain A.
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Cakić, Nevenka
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Coffinet, Sarah
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Dittmar, Thorsten
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Fulton, James M.
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Galy, Valier
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Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe
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Ingalls, Anitra
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Koch, Boris P.
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Kujawinski, Elizabeth B.
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Liu, Zhanfei
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Osterholz, Helena
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Rush, Darci
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Seidel, Michael
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Sepulveda, Julio
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Wakeham, Stuart G.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/26282As published
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00718DOI
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chemometrics; natural marine organic matter; FT-ICR-MS; analytical challenges; HR-NMR; marine organic biogeochemistryAbstract
Advances in sampling tools, analytical methods, and data handling capabilities have been fundamental to the growth of marine organic biogeochemistry over the past four decades. There has always been a strong feedback between analytical advances and scientific advances. However, whereas advances in analytical technology were often the driving force that made possible progress in elucidating the sources and fate of organic matter in the ocean in the first decades of marine organic biogeochemistry, today process-based scientific questions should drive analytical developments. Several paradigm shifts and challenges for the future are related to the intersection between analytical progress and scientific evolution. Untargeted “molecular headhunting” for its own sake is now being subsumed into process-driven targeted investigations that ask new questions and thus require new analytical capabilities. However, there are still major gaps in characterizing the chemical composition and biochemical behavior of macromolecules, as well as in generating reference standards for relevant types of organic matter. Field-based measurements are now routinely complemented by controlled laboratory experiments and in situ rate measurements of key biogeochemical processes. And finally, the multidisciplinary investigations that are becoming more common generate large and diverse datasets, requiring innovative computational tools to integrate often disparate data sets, including better global coverage and mapping. Here, we compile examples of developments in analytical methods that have enabled transformative scientific advances since 2004, and we project some challenges and opportunities in the near future. We believe that addressing these challenges and capitalizing on these opportunities will ensure continued progress in understanding the cycling of organic carbon in the ocean.
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© The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Steen, A. D., Kusch, S., Abdulla, H. A., Cakic, N., Coffinet, S., Dittmar, T., Fulton, J. M., Galy, V., Hinrichs, K., Ingalls, A. E., Koch, B. P., Kujawinski, E., Liu, Z., Osterholz, H., Rush, D., Seidel, M., Sepulveda, J., & Wakeham, S. G. Analytical and computational advances, opportunities, and challenges in marine organic biogeochemistry in an era of "Omics". Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, (2020): 718, doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00718.
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Steen, A. D., Kusch, S., Abdulla, H. A., Cakic, N., Coffinet, S., Dittmar, T., Fulton, J. M., Galy, V., Hinrichs, K., Ingalls, A. E., Koch, B. P., Kujawinski, E., Liu, Z., Osterholz, H., Rush, D., Seidel, M., Sepulveda, J., & Wakeham, S. G. (2020). Analytical and computational advances, opportunities, and challenges in marine organic biogeochemistry in an era of "Omics". Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 718.The following license files are associated with this item:
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