Daniel J. Carucci, Malcolm J. Gardner, Herve Tettelin, Leda M. Cummings, Hamilton O. Smith, Mark D. Adams, Stephen L. Hoffman and J. Craig Venter
| Table 1. Sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes (tab001dcn) | |||
| Chromosome | Size (in Mb) | Sequence centre | Status/comment |
| 1 | 0.65 | Sanger | Partially sequenced |
| 2 | 1.0 | TIGR/NMRI | Sequence completed |
| 3 | 1.2 | Sanger | Nearing completion of sequence |
| 4 | 1.4 | Sanger | Partially sequenced |
| 5 | 1.6 | Sanger | |
| 6 | 1.6 | Sanger | |
| 7 | 1.7 | Sanger | |
| 8 | 1.7 | Sanger | |
| 9 | 1.8 | Sanger | |
| 10 | 2.1 | TIGR/NMRI | |
| 11 | 2.3 | TIGR/NMRI | |
| 12 | 2.4 | Stanford | Partially sequenced |
| 13 | 3.2 | Sanger | |
| 14 | 3.4 | TIGR/NMRI | |
| Abbreviations
used and links to further sequence information: Mb = megabase pairs; Sanger = the Sanger Centre (Hinxton, UK), http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/P_falciparum; TIGR = The Institute for Genomic Research (Rockville, MD, USA), http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mdb/pfdb/pfdb.html; NMRI = Naval Medical Research Institute (Rockville, MD, USA), http://www.nmri.nnmc.navy.mil; Stanford = Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA), http://sequence-www.stanford.edu/group/malaria/index.html |
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