MapSeq: New Interactive Malaria Database
Date:
20th April 2010
Date:
20th April 2010
MapSeq, an interactive web-based database of genome variation in the malaria parasite, has recently been launched. As described in the international IT magazine WIRED: “The latest anti-malaria weapon is not a drug -- it's data. If you can sequence the genomes of thousands of malaria parasites and of the Anopheles mosquitoes that carry them, you can spot genetic mutations that can cause drug and insecticide resistance.” The MapSeq application has been developed by the team at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
You can read the full article on the WIRED website.