Obama's 2011 Budget Seeks $69.3M for JGI

GenomeWeb.com
March 26, 2010
By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Under the White House's proposed budget for 2011, the US Department of Energy expects to receive a total of $322 million next fiscal year for its Biological Systems Science Research (BSSR) efforts, including $69.3 million for the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), an increase of less than one percent over the $69 million JGI received for this year.

Under President Barack Obama's proposed budget for fiscal 2011, the DOE's Office of Science would receive an increase in funding to $5.1 billion from $4.9 billion in 2010, including $220 million for biofuels and biomass research.

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