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Update: PlasmoPredict: a gene function prediction website for Plasmodium falciparum

Author(s): 
Philip M.R. Tedder, James R. Bradford, Glenn A. McConkey, Andy J. Bulpitt, David R. Westhead
Reference: 
Trends in Parasitology, Volume 26, Issue 3, March 2010, Pages 107-110
Contact email: 
D.R.Westhead@leeds.ac.uk

The genome sequence of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum was published in 2002 and revealed that not, vert, similar60% of its genes could not be assigned a function. Eight years later the majority of P. falciparum proteins are still of unknown function. We therefore present PlasmoPredict, an easy-to-use online gene function prediction tool that integrates a wide range of functional genomics data for P. falciparum to aid in the annotation of these genes.