What is REFUGE ?

REFUGE (The RicE FUnctional GEnomics platform) is an international hosting platform, based in Montpellier, Agropolis-Lavalette campus, France open to the international plant science community.

REFUGE offers an access to bioinformatic, biological, and molecular resources  and know-how allowing hosted scientists, including non rice specialists, to use rice as a model system to elucidate gene function through functional genomics strategies. Hosting of the scientists is typically carried out through one to several visits (from one week to 3 months) on the platform, REFUGE taking care of the materials produced between two visits.

REFUGE wishes to become an experience-sharing site for Scientists from the North and the South.

REFUGE is funded by Agropolis Fondation (http://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/) and set up by the DAP (http://umr-dap.cirad.fr/) and GDP (http://lgdp.univ-perp.fr/) units.