The Functional Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (FEBA) is an effort to develop a pipeline for microbial functional annotation in order to help bridge the gap between sequencing microbial genomes and characterizing the genes encoded by these genomes. Many of the microbial species being studied in this pilot project have direct relevance to DOE missions including biofuels development, carbon cycling, and bioremediation. The functional data generated by this project is expected to provide new opportunities in comparative functional genomics and novel computational tool development for inferring gene function and metabolic networks, which will be performed in collaboration with DOE systems biology KnowledgeBase
PI: Adam Deutschbauer, LBNL