Widescale biodiesel production from algae
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
This web paper discusses biodiesel, including fuels made from algae.
Algal oil production
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7241e/w7241e0h.htm
This chapter provides an excellent overview of all aspects of algal oil production and extraction.
U.S. DOE oil from algae program summary
http://biodiesel.pl/uploads/media/A_Look_Back_at_the_U.S._Department_of_Energy_s_Aquatic_Species_Program_Biodiesel_from_Algae_July_1998_01.pdf
This report describes a long-term project of the U.S. Department of Energy conducting research on aquatic species. The emphasis is on the production of biodiesel by algae.
Biodiesel from algae
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Biodiesel_from_Algae_Oil
This encyclopedia-type resource contains excellent information and useful links pertaining to alagal biodiesel.
Biodiesel from algae – Info, resources and links
http://www.castoroil.in/reference/plant_oils/uses/fuel/sources/algae/biodiesel_algae.html
This webpage contains an excellent primer on algae, with an emphasis on those genera demonstrated to produce useful fuel molecules.
Oilgae.com
http://www.oilgae.com/
This comprehensive site deals with all aspects of biofuels production by algae, largely via links to other sites.
Greenfuel technology
http://www.greenfuelonline.com/
This commercial site describes alagal sequestration of carbon dioxide for the generation of biomass.
Cultivating algae for liquid fuel production
http://oakhavenpc.org/cultivating_algae.htm
This web article gives a nice overview of using algae for producing liquid fuels.
Botryococcus braunii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botryococcus_braunii
This web encyclopedia entry provides an excellent overview of the predominant hydrocarbon-producing algae that has been studied in some detail.
Hydrocarbons
http://www.cyberlipid.org/simple/simp0002.htm
This site provides a good primer on hydrocarbons; their sources and properties.
Jet fuel from microalgal lipids
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy06osti/40352.pdf
This report gives an overview using microalgae to produce lipids and hydrocarbons to produce oils of various types.
Alagae – types and oils
http://www.oilgae.com/algae/oil/yield/yield.html
This webpage discusses the yields of oil per amount of biomass produced, which is generally higher with algae than other organisms.
Biodiesel encyclopedia
http://www.bdpedia.com/
The biodiesel encyclopedia largely provides links to scientific, economic and policy sites pertaining to biodiesel.
Marine Bological Resources Center
http://cod.mbio.co.jp/mbihp/e/organization_e.php
The Marine Biological Resources Center maintains more than 20,000 strains and conducts research on hydrocarbon production by marine microorganisms, primarily microalgae.
Marine Biotechnology Institute culture ollection
http://seasquirt.mbio.co.jp/mbic/
The culture collection group obtains, studies, and preserves marine bacteria and microalgae. The collections are disseminated through the NITE Biological Resource Center.
NITE Biological Resource Center
http://www.nbrc.nite.go.jp/e/
This major repository of biological materials also contains major collections of oil-producing bacteria and algae.
Hydrocarbon-producing Botryococcus
http://www.ejbiotechnology.info/content/vol10/issue1/full/11/index.html
This recent web article discusses the isolation and characterization of new Botryococcus strains.
Dunaliella database
http://www.dunaliella.org/dunabase/
This resource, still under development, will be expanded to contain information on culture methods, biochemistry, phylogeny and genetics of algae in the genus Danaliella.
Botryococcus.org
http://www.botryococcus.org/
This website will be devoted to information on the oil-producing algae Botryococcus. The data fields are not yet populated.
Freshwater algae collection
http://www1.im.ac.cn/typecc/danshui/database.html
This is the most comprehensive algal collection in China and distributes strains internationally.
Culture collection of algae at Cologne
http://www.ccac.uni-koeln.de/listofspecies.htm
This website is for a major algal repository. It currently maintains about 1600 clonal varieties.
Botryococcus octadecanal decarbonylase
http://www.brenda.uni-koeln.de/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=4.1.99.5&organism=
This page in the BRENDA database describes the enzyme reported to produce alkanes in Botryococcus.
Dunaliella salina UTEX genome project
http://genomesonline.org/GOLD_CARDS/Gi01365.html
This page is in the Genomes-On-Line Database (GOLD). It is a link to information on Danaliella salina, an oil producing alga for which a genome sequencing project is currently ongoing.