Microbial Response to Crude Oil in Ocean Sediments Using ‘Omic Technologies Challenge Microbes are vital to ecosystems; they are critical to essential processes such as oxygen cycling and nitrogen fixation. Through carbon utilization and bioremediation, microbes are instrumental to removal of pollutants from the environment. Microbes from complex environmental samples are difficult, if not impossible, to culture and identify in the laboratory, efforts which consume valuable time and resources while often yielding ambiguous results. Solution Battelle's combined metagenomic and metaproteomic analytical approaches demonstrated how microorganisms respond to changes in the environment such as exposure to crude oil. The microbial response to crude oil was investigated using genetic sequence prof

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