Microbial and Bioinformatics Approach in Biofuel Production

Due to the increasing world population and ever developing technology, the need and demand for energy are increasing day by day. In parallel with this, the tendency to use renewable alternative energy sources instead of limited fossil fuel reserves is increasing worldwide. Lignocellulosic biomasses which are abundant in nature with renewable energy potential are preferred in biofuel production. These raw biomaterials are transformed into forms that can be used in biofuel production processes by various pretreatment techniques. The physical and chemical methods commonly used in the pretreatment of the substrate have some limitations. However, microbial methods for hydrolysis of biomass are quite remarkable. In this study, we focused on the pretreatment of biomass and microbial enzymes used in biofuel production process.