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MalariaGEN's primary funding is from the Wellcome Trust (grant number 077383/Z/05/Z) and from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (grant number 566) as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. Initial work on the web-based software was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (grant number 29015) and the UK Medical Research Council (grant number G0200454). The Wellcome Trust (Sanger Institute core funding) and the Medical Research Council (grant number G0600230) provide additional support for genotyping, bioinformatics and analysis. We thank H. Pearson and colleagues at Bird & Bird for pro bono advice on intellectual property. The MalariaGEN Resource Centre is part of the European Union Network of Excellence on the Biology and Pathology of Malaria Parasites. Individuals who helped to establish MalariaGEN are acknowledged online (see http://www.malariagen.net/resource/1).

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The Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network. A global network for investigating the genomic epidemiology of malaria.Nature 456, 732–737 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07632

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