<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>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 <italic>Arabidopsis</italic> Genome Sequencing Consortium, which contributed to the sequence and
analysis of the complete <italic>Arabidopsis</italic> genome that was published late last year. He is the
co-ordinator of the EC funded EXOTIC program and is also a member of GARNet and
UK CropNet. (For more background detail on these projects, please see our Featured
Organism: <italic>Arabidopsis thaliana</italic> piece, also in this issue of CFG, or visit the websites listed
below).</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2001 Apr; 2(2):99-102