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MalVac: Database of malarial vaccine candidates

25 Sep 2008

Paul Chinnock

Source: Malaria Journal (see original article)

Citation: Chaudhuri R, Ahmed S, Ansari FA, Singh HV, Ramachandran S (2008). MalVac: Database of malarial vaccine candidates. Malaria Journal; 7:184.

2008 Chaudhuri et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The sequencing of genomes of the Plasmodium species causing malaria, offers opportunities in the development of new therapeutics and vaccine candidates through bioinformatics tools and resources. MalVac is a database for malarial vaccine candidates developed at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in Delhi, India. It contains a detailed analysis of proteins from various Plasmodium species, especially those involved in the adhesion process and are likely to play an important role as vaccine candidates.

The development of MalVac as a freely accessible ‘community resource’ and how it may be used is described in this article published in Malaria Journal. MalVac users are encouraged to export data and further contribute by value addition.

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