DOE announces $25.7 million in bioenergy funding for national labs

In Washington, the Department of Energy announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will receive $13.1 million to upgrade equipment at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and $4 million for new instrumentation at the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, which is one of three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive $5.4 million for equipment at the DOE BioEnergy Science Center—another of the DOE Bioenergy Research Centers—as well as $3.2 million to start developing a computerized knowledge base that integrates the data from DOE-supported research in genomics and systems biology.

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