Taxonomic and functional profiling of the microbial communities of Arabian Sea: A metagenomics approach

• Various methods for metagenomic DNA extraction from Seawater developed and optimized • First metagenomic study of the microbial communities of Arabian Sea water • Metagenomic sequencing revealed that majority of the microbes are uncultivable. • PICRUSt demonstrated potential xenobiotic degrading microbial communities in sea water.