UK CropNet

The UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network (UK CropNet)

UK CropNet currently provides a range of databases (and database-mining tools) to the plant community that are all freely accessible through our website (http://ukcrop.net/). Recent upgrades have meant that we can now expand the range of available facilities (e.g. addition of new databases) whilst also strengthening and improving access to existing services (e.g. providing a BLAST search facili...

UK CropNet: a collection of databases and bioinformatics resources for crop plant genomics

The UK Crop Plant Bioinformatics Network (UK CropNet) was established in 1996 in order to harness the extensive work in genome mapping in crop plants in the UK. Since this date we have published five databases from our central UK CropNet WWW site (http://synteny.nott.ac.uk/) with a further three to follow shortly. Our resource facilitates the identification and manipulation of agronomically imp...

Interview With Michael Bevan: The Arabidopsis Genome is Sequenced, What Next?

Professor Michael Bevan is at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, where he is Head of the Cell and Developmental Biology Department. He was the co-ordinator of the European Union Arabidopsis Genome Sequencing Consortium, which contributed to the sequence and analysis of the complete Arabidopsis genome that was published late last year. He is the co-ordinator of the EC funded EXOTIC program and ...

An Analysis of Economic Implications of the UK Leaving the EU

W hether the United Kingdom (UK) should remain in the European Union (EU) or not has been a fiercely debated issue both before and after the referendum in the UK on June 23, 2016. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the pros and cons of the UK leaving the EU. It is concluded that if the UK leaves the EU, the resulting economic shock would risk adverse effects on macroecono...

Providing Safe and Effective Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the UK – Changing Strategies