SRA

The <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> genome has a total size of 23 Mb, organized in 14 chromosomes. Due to its size and the high AT content, a chromosome-based approach was chosen for the sequencing strategy. The chromosomes from <i>P. falciparum</i> 3D7 were distributed among the sequencing centers that make up the <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/P_falciparum/who&what.shtml"><i>P. falciparum</i> Genome Sequencing Consortium</a>, established in 1996. The sequencing centers involved in this research program are <a href="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/P_falciparum/">The Sanger Institute</a>, The Institute for Genomic Research (<a href="http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/pfa1/">TIGR</a>) in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.nmrc.navy.mil/">US Naval Medical Research Center</a>, and the <a href="http://med.stanford.edu/sgtc/research/malaria.html">Stanford Genome Technology Center</a> at Stanford University.