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What Is Energy Genomics?

Mar 30, 2010

If you're not quite sure what the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute does, they've teamed up with the Ex'pression College for Digital Arts to make a video to show just how sequencing genomes can help develop alternative fuels. The video premiered last week at the JGI Users' meeting to great applause.

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