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With the development and deployment of a rapid and robust open-source platform that enables the evaluation of thousands of biorefinery designs under uncertainty, it may be possible to develop, evaluate, and compare biorefinery configurations to characterize the potential for new oil-accumulating feedstocks and processing technologies for sustainable biofuel production. To this end, this work: (1) enabled the rapid evaluation of landscapes of designs through the development of BioSTEAM (2) developed detailed models for processing oil-accumulating feedstocks and assessed their potential sustainability via uncertainty and sensitivity analyses, and (3) compared design alternatives and charted development pathways towards sustainable oilcane and oil-sorghum processing in the United States. 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