The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking nominations of microbes and microbial communities as candidates for draft genomic sequencing in support of its Microbial Genome and the Genomes to Life Programs. Candidate microbes and microbial communities should be relevant to DOE mission needs, e.g., microbes involved in environmental processes, waste remediation, carbon management, energy production, and/or biodefense. The genomes of selected microbes/communities will be draft sequenced (6-8X coverage) by the DOE’s Joint Genome Institute. (Nomination deadline: March 28, 2002.)