作为联合国“海洋十年”框架下首个以探索深海微生物组为核心的大科学计划，DOME覆盖全球五大洋，聚焦“深渊海沟”和“极地海洋”两大战略领域，通过“人类-微生物-海洋”(People-Microbe-Ocean，PMO)创新理念探索深海微生物的物种多样性、遗传多样性、代谢多样性和功能多样性，建立深海基因组(DOG)技术体系，构建全球深海和极地海洋微生物资源库，促进海洋生物多样性的保护及其资源的可持续开发利用，理清深海生态系统与全球气候变化的互馈作用以实现“以科学为基础，技术为驱动”的海洋管理和利用新范式。
As the first UN Ocean Decade programme centered on mapping deep ocean microbiomes and ecosystems, DOME spans all five global oceans and focuses on two strategic areas: hadal trenches and polar oceans. Guided by the innovative People-Microbe-Ocean” (PMO) concept, DOME explores the species diversity, genetic diversity, metabolic diversity, and functional diversity of deep-sea microorganisms; establishes a deep ocean genome (DOG) technology system; builds a global deep ocean and polar ocean microbial resource repository; promotes the protection, sustainable development and utilization of marine bioresources; determine the mutual feedback mechanisms between deep ocean ecosystems and global climate change; and achieves a new paradigm of ocean management and governance driven by science and technology.
