 Like other thermophilic bacteria, "Aquifex" has important uses in industrial processes.The genome of ""A. aeolicus"" has been completed., This was made easier by the fact that the length of the genome is only about a third of the length of the genome for "E. coli".Comparison of the "A. aeolicus" genome to other organisms showed that around 16% of its genes originated from the Archaea domain.