The objective of the Biosciences International Conferences is to identify and prioritize measurement, standards and technology barriers to the realization of optimal economic and broad societal benefit from new discoveries in the following focus areas:

• Agriculture - increasing yield, quality, & safety in the world's food supply
• Energy - obtaining sustainable energy from biological sources
• Environment - understanding our planet through linking molecules to ecosystems
• Manufacturing - obtaining higher quality products through better bioprocess measurements
• Medicine - improving health through measurement of complex biological signatures
• Closing the Gap - unrecognized, overlooked, underestimated and ignored challenges.