Biofuels could provide as much as 10% of the world's fuel mix over the next couple of decades according to Rob Routs, Executive Director Oil Sands, Oil Products Chemicals, Royal Dutch Shell. Routs's message was delivered in a major speech

TMO Renewables has licensed the ERGO™ bioinformatics software from Integrated Genomics. The company will use the tools for gene annotation, metabolic reconstruction and enzyme data-mining as well as for comparative genomics purposes.

There should be no U-turn on the European Union's biofuels policy said Mariann Fischer Boel, the Commissioner responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development, speaking in Brussels today. Ms Fischer Boel was made her comments at the Who will feed the