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These programs are conducted by thousands of researchers from DOE’s 17 national laboratories, universities, and the private sector, and the results of this work provide broad benefits to society.</p><p>A distinctive feature of DOE’s biotechnology-related programs is their close coupling with the Department’s broad capabilities in the physical and computational sciences. For example:</p><ul><li>DOE’s world-leading capabilities at its X-ray and neutron sources are broadly used by researchers from industry to examine the structures of biomolecules for the development of pharmaceuticals.</li><li>DOE’s best-in-class high-performance computers are used to model complex biological systems to understand and harness processes to produce biofuels.</li><li>Capabilities for studying living systems and their genetic make-up are combined with automated “smart” laboratories and used to test these models and lay the groundwork for engineering these processes to optimize and scale-up biomanufacturing.</li><li>And scale-up infrastructure at DOE user-access facilities is leveraged to demonstrate bioproduction.</li></ul><p>In all of these activities, DOE maintains and immense store of well-curated, high-quality biological data that is made available to the scientific community.</p><p>In service of the Department’s science, applied energy, and national security mission set, the DOE ecosystem actively supports all aspects of biotechnology research, development, demonstration, and deployment, advancing innovations that serve the public good.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="layout blade-section--fullwidth blade-section--blue--dark blade-section blade-section--text--white" id="highlights"> <div class="blade-color " > <div class="grid-container"> <div class="grid-row"> <div class="grid-col"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocktemplate"> <div><div class="paragraph-reference-heading-wrapper paragraph-reference-heading-wrapper--"><h2 class="block block-layout-builder block-inline-blocktemplate"> Highlights </h2></div><div class="paragraph-reference-subheading-wrapper"><span>DOE research and development programs contribute to both advancing and safeguarding biotechnology, assuring the economic security and well-being of the nation. From discovery science to technology development, and from scale-up to first-of-kind deployments, DOE is pushing the frontier of biotechnology for science, applied energy, sustainability, and national security. 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