ILDIS

International Legume Database & Information Service

General information about ILDIS

ILDIS is dedicated to the study of the plant family Leguminosae, which contains just under a twelfth of the world's flowering plants. Many species are of economic importance.

The aim of ILDIS is to provide a service to legume specialists and users of legumes and legume products worldwide. The service includes products obtained from a database of all the species. ILDIS is a collaborative organisation involving experts and institutions all over the world.

Organisation

The activities of ILDIS are carried out at the various centres or institutions which constitute ILDIS. The organisation is managed from a Coordinating Centre in the Bioinformatics Laboratory, Biology Department, University of Southampton, UK.

ILDIS produces a newsletter at varying intervals. Issue 6 has recently been produced (June 1995). Although primarily intended for ILDIS participants, it is available to other people with an interest in the family Leguminosae. If you would like to be added to our mailing list for the printed version, please email or write to the Coordinating Centre. The addresses are given at the bottom of this page. An electronic version of issue 6 will be available soon via this Web page (nothing terribly advanced, just an edited version of the word-processor file).

Products and services

ILDIS distributes information from its database as services, which provide the latest information in answer to a particular request, and products, which are printed publications and other materials which are designed for a whole class of users and are not frequently updated.

Odds and ends

Here is some more miscellaneous information.

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