MapSeq/pf is a database of genome variation in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in populations around the world, with data on 347 samples and growing. It allows you to browse the data for a geographical location or for a genomic region. You can take a high level view of population structure for a large group of samples, or you can zoom in to view the sequence data for an individual sample.

Malaria researchers around the world have contributed samples and data to the MapSeq/pf project. Many of the samples were obtained directly from the blood of individuals with malaria infection without culture adaptation. About the investigators and how you can participate >>

The genome variation data in MapSeq/pf have been produced at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute by next-generation sequencing. This generates very large numbers of sequence reads of Plasmodium DNA which are aligned to a reference genome to detect SNPs, indels and other forms of variation. More >>

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