News

• DOE JGI Community Sequencing Program accepting letters of intent. Details at http://1.usa.gov/JGI-CSP13
• Winter 2012 edition of JGI newsletter The Primer now available
• 2012 Genomic Science Meeting was held February 26-29, 2012. Abstracts now available.
• National Laboratories and Universities Team up to Build a Community Systems Biology Knowledgebase. DOE announced the selection of a collaboration of top scientists from across the Nation to lead development of a computer-based Systems Biology Knowledgebase.
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Reports

• Biosystems Design: Report from the July 2011 Workshop [4/12]
• Applications of New DOE National User Facilities in Biology [2/12]
• Switchgrass Research Group: Progress Report [1/12]
• DOE Genomic Science Program Overview Handout [5/11]
• Genomics for Energy and Environmental Science Placemat [1/11]
• Grand Challenges for Biological and Environmental Research: A Long-Term Vision Report [12/10]
• DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase Implementation Plan [9/10]
• Bioenergy Research Centers Overview [7/10]
• New Frontiers in Characterizing Biological Systems Report [10/09]
• Sustainability of Biofuels: DOE-USDA Report [4/09]
• Systems Biology Knowledgebase Workshop Report [3/09]
• Carbon Cycling and Biosequestration [12/08]
• Information & Data Sharing Policy [4/08]
• Biomass to Biofuels Plan [7/06]
• Roadmap [10/05]
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Funding

• Funding Call: Genomic Science: Biosystems Design to Enable Next-Generation Biofuels [01/12]
• Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy. DOE and USDA announce funding call [11/10]
• DOE Office of Science Grants and Contracts
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Research

Genomic Science-Related BER Research Highlights

• Switchgrass Sequencing Provides Insight into Genome Structure and Organization [Apr 12, 2012]
  Perennial switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is capable of producing high biomass yields wi [more...]
• Understanding How Bacteria Use Sunlight [Apr 05, 2012]
  Cyanobacteria are prime candidates for the biological production of biofuels, especially hydrogen [more...]
• Using Systems Biology to Understand Complex Microbial Communities [Mar 27, 2012]
  The ability to effectively model and predict integrated functional properties across complex grou [more...]
• Microbes Stress Out During Conversion of Pretreated Biomass to Biofuels [Mar 02, 2012]
  Chemical pretreatment of plant biomass prior to enzymatic breakdown significantly improves the re [more...]
• Using High-Performance Computing to Study the Hydration of Cellobiose [Feb 16, 2012]
  Cellobiose, the two glucose basic repeat unit of cellulose, is formed during enzymatic or acidic [more...]
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