**The Plasmodium yoelii Genome Database (PYDB)**

The Plasmodium yoelii Genome Sequencing Program

The Institute for Genomic Research and the Naval Medical Research Center established a collaborative research program to accelerate gene discovery and new drug and vaccine development in malaria.

This research program is funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

We plan to use a highly cost-effective and rapid approach towards gene discovery in P. yoelii. We will accomplish this goal by sequencing at low coverage the genome of the rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii and by annotating the DNA contigs at 5x genome representation.

The Plasmodium yoelii sequencing program is complementary to the efforts initiated in 1995 by the International Malaria Genome Sequencing Consortium, which aims to sequence and annotate all the genes of the human malaria parasite P. falciparum

The International Malaria Genome Sequencing Consortium involves four research institutions: TIGR/NMRC, the Sanger Center and Stanford University and is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, U.S. Department of Defense, Burroughs Welcome Fund, and Wellcome Trust.

Introduction
What's New Latest News on TIGR's Malaria sequencing effort.
Preliminary Annotation
Data Release Policy Warnings on the use of preliminary data
Links Links to Information on the Plasmodium falciparum sequencing project available from other sites

For P.yoelii Comments/Questions send mail to py@tigr.org.

Introduction | What's New
Preliminary Annotation
Data Release Policy | Links