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Natural systems, from simple microbes to complex, highly diverse ecosystems, hold secrets of life that fascinate curious minds, drive scientific inquiry, and offer biological solutions to many energy and environmental challenges facing us today. Even the simplest of these systems, the single microbe, is so complex that we do not yet possess a full understanding of how a living system works, how life processes are regulated at the molecular level, and how organisms interact with and modify their environments.

 

 

The Department of Energy (DOE) Genomic Science program* is driven by a grand challenge in biology: understanding biological systems so well that we can develop predictive, computational models of these systems (see figure below, Genomic Science Program Goal and Objectives). By revealing the genetic blueprint and fundamental principles that control plant and microbial systems relevant to DOE missions, the Genomic Science program is providing the foundational knowledge underlying biological approaches to producing biofuels, sequestering carbon in terrestrial ecosystems, and cleaning up contaminated
environments.

The fundamental scientific advances emanating from this program are transferable to a broad range of application areas and lay a foundation for new generations of industrial biotechnologies.

 

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