Funding assured for international malaria sequencing project

摘要

Britain's Wellcome Trust last weel-gave a much-needed boost to malaria research with a decision to invest ￡8 million in an international effort to sequence the genome of Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite. The three-year Wellcome Trust grant alone meets more than half the estimated 20 million dollar costs of the international project to sequence the 30 megabase genome of P.falciparum, and means that the project is now guaranteed to go ahead.