The
Brugia malayi Project
Secretary to the projectMark Blaxter
ICAPB, University of Edinburgh
email mark.blaxter@ed.ac.uk
The Filarial Initiative is funded by the WHO-TDR with supplemental funding from The McConnell Clark Foundation, and several others.
Data and news from the project is regularly posted to the and announced on the
Karyotype and Physical Mapping
Not currently being done, but a physical mapping project has been funded.
EST sequencing
(Uganda, India, Egypt, UK, USA)
The Filarial Initiative has concentrated its efforts on EST sequencing for gene discovery. A consortium of six laboratories in both endemic and nonendemic countries has submitted 4023 ESTs to date from several cDNA libraries.
All libraries are freely available
A summary of the results of the EST project is posted here....
There is a parallel est project on Ochocerca volvulus (Williams, USA)
Resource Provision
All the EST clones and the libraries from which they are derived are freely available.
08/10/1996