Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are getting ready to test a new application that will decipher the genetic code of microbes in the world's oceans. This tool will help scientists understand how microbes function in their ecosystems, find out what effect humans are having on those ecosystems, and possibly learn more about the evolution of life on earth. But the application, known as "CAMERA" (short for Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis), makes use of enormous datasets in many different places. It's going to rely on the National LambdaRail, a high-speed academic network, to tie them all together.