As the supply of light sweet crude oil diminishes, the world is becoming more and more dependent on unconventional sources of energy including heavy oil, coal and shale oil.  The extraction and utilization or conversion of these low-value forms of carbon into higher value and cleaner-burning forms of carbon are both expensive and come with a significant environmental footprint. 

Taxon has searched widely to find microbes that are able to convert these recalcitrant carbon sources into forms that can be recovered and utilized more efficiently and with less environmental impact and has developed processes that harness the potential of these extraordinary microbes and the communities in which they reside.  With the world increasingly relying on ever more challenging sources of energy, Taxon is the go-to source of expertise for genome-based approaches to hydrocarbons.

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