- Jane Carlton: The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. carlton@tigr.org
With the successful completion of the project to sequence the Plasmodium falciparum genome, researchers are now turning their attention to other malaria parasite species. Here, an update on the Plasmodium vivax genome sequencing project is presented, as part of the Trends in Parasitology series of reviews expanding on various aspects of P. vivax research.