NEW YORK, April 21 (GenomeWeb News) - Diversa has received $1.5 million in funding from the Department of Energy's Genomics:GTL program, the company and DOE said today.
Diversa, based in San Diego, plans to use the three-year grant to recover and sequence previously uncultured microbes from environmental samples such as seawater or soil using microcapsules.
The Genomics:GTL program used to be called Genomes to Life.