These drones are the centerpiece of "Gliderpalooza," a collaborative ocean-survey experiment coordinated by 16 American and Canadian government agencies and research teams.
The experiment, coordinated by a company called R3 CEV using Bitcoin-inspired software called Ethereum, took place inside Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Azure.
XMA designed the experiment, coordinated and supervised the research.
MZY conceived the experiment, coordinated and supervised the research, and drafted the manuscript.
DNS participated in design of experiment, coordinated the study and helped to draft the manuscript.
AGC conceived and designed the experiment, coordinated data collection, and edited the manuscript.
DDF conceived the experiment, coordinated and supervised the research, conducted molecular marker analysis, association mapping, and linkage map construction.
SK designed the experiment, coordinated the program and provided all lab facilities for molecular analysis and helped to prepare the manuscript.
Guarantor of the article: Franco Pandolfi, MD. Specific author contribution: Rossella Cianci ideated the experiment, coordinated the project, analyzed samples, analyzed data, and wrote and corrected the paper.
F.C., R.A.C., M.G. and M.T. designed the experiments, coordinated the project and wrote the manuscript.
