Journal Clubs are a popular feature on PLoS ONE papers. We had several of them in the spring. Now, after a brief summer break, we are launching the Journal Clubs again and intend to have them happen on a regular basis, perhaps as frequently as one per week.

In short, a lab group volunteers to discuss one of the more recent (or even upcoming, not yet published) PLoS ONE papers and to post their discussion as a series of comments, annotations and ratings on the paper itself, triggering a discussion within a broader scientific community.

The first group that will start our Fall series is the Bacterial Metagenomics [1] group led by Dr.Jonathan Eisen at UC-Davis. They chose to discuss last week's ONE article Metagenomics of the Deep Mediterranean, a Warm Bathypelagic Habitat [2] and have posted first several parts of their discussion [3]. So, you should go and read the paper and what the Eisen group wrote about it, then join in the conversation - add your own commentary, including annotations and ratings to the article.

And if you and your group would like to do a Journal Club in the future, let us know - e-mail me at: Bora@plos.org