New Genomic Strategies and Technologies for Studying Complex Microbial Communities Validating Genomic Annotations

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New Genomic Strategies and Technologies for Studying Complex Microbial Communities Validating Genomic Annotations: The Office of Biological and Environmental Research(BER) of the Office ofScience (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), hereby announces itsinterest inreceiving applications for research that supports the Genomics: GTLresearchprogram (http://genomicsgtl.energy.gov/). In this Notice, two areas ofresearchapplications are sought. The first is concerned with characterization ofmicrobial communities having high priorities for DOE missions in bioenergyproduction, carbon cycling, and environmental remediation. The science ofmicrobial ecology will be advanced by understanding the activities,composition(at multiple scales of resolution), distribution, diversity, relativeabundance, and interactions of the microorganisms in relevant microbialcommunities. The second area addresses the mismatch between genomic andmetagenomic DNA sequencing capabilities and the experimental testing offunction annotations derived from the newly displayed sequence. Novelapproaches are invited to better characterize microbial communities basedongenomic information and/or to accelerate experimental validation of genome,gene set, and metagenomic annotations.