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Societal Impact Statement
Diverse gene pools are fundamental to crop improvement, biodiversity maintenance and environmental management. The UKCropDiversity‐HPC high‐performance computing resource enables seven UK institutes to perform plant and conservation research with increased efficiency, cost‐effectiveness and environmental sustainability. It supports research across numerous areas, including bioinformatics, genetics, phenomics and conservation ‐ including Artificial Intelligence approaches. Its utilisation supports many United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including Goals‐2 (Zero Hunger), −13 (Climate Action), −15 (Life on Land), −9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and −4 (Quality Education). Accordingly, UKCropDiversity‐HPC helps maximise the societal impact of research undertaken at our seven institutes, driving positive change for future generations.
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Computation;
Artificial intelligence;
Collaboration;
Bioinformatics;
Biodiversity;
Quality of education;
Conservation genetics;
Data processing;
Data analysis;
Crop improvement;
Genomics;
Research & development--R&D;
Environmental management;
Energy consumption;
Climate change;
Sustainable agriculture;
Machine learning;
Infrastructure;
Sustainable development;
Computer vision;
Climate action;
Genetics;
Plant sciences;
Conservation;
Hunger;
Ecosystem biology;
High performance computing
; Barnes, Ian 2
; Clark, Matthew D. 2
; Cockram, James 1
; Coffey, Michael P. 3
; Jones, Susan 4
; Kersey, Paul J. 5
; Kidner, Catherine A. 6
; Kosiol, Carolin 7
; Li, Bingjie 3
; Marsh, William A. 2
; Zhou, Ji 1
; Caccamo, Mario 1
; Milne, Iain 4
1 Niab, Cambridge, UK
2 The Natural History Museum, London, UK
3 SRUC Scotland's Rural College, Roslin Institute, Midlothian, UK
4 The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK
5 Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, UK
6 Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
7 University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK