• John F. Heidelberg (Principle Investigator, TIGR)
• Edward F. DeLong (Co-PI, MIT)
• Jonathan A. Eisen (Co-PI, TIGR)
• Oded Beja (Israel Institute of Technology)
• William Nelson (Senior Bioinformatics Analyst, TIGR)

• Alfred Wegener Institute - Foundation for Polar and Marine Research
• The Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• Center of Marine Biotechnology - University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
• Montery Bay Aquatic Research Institute
• Old Dominion University's Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
• Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• University of Delaware, Graduate College of Marine Studies
• University of Hawaii, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology
• University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
• University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
• University of Washington School of Oceanography
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• American Society for Microbiology
• The National Academies
• Society for Industrial Microbiology

• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• United States Department of Energy (DOE)

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation