Last Updated: 13/11/2025
A repository for open access data collected by the Malaria Atlas Project: ROAD-MAP
Objectives
This biomedical resources grant seeks resources to sustain this data acquisition, provide robustly curated databases and geographic map products to a range of user communities and hence support the aspirations of other scientists, those involved in control and elimination, and the lay public.
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), Australia
The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) has received substantial support for the acquisition of basic malariometric data from the Wellcome Trust. With this investment it has been achieved the largest ever assembly of parasite rates (P. falciparum and P. vivax), of the occurrence of medically important anophelines and the gene frequencies of six inherited blood disorders. The demand for this combined information resource is readily apparent in the widespread uptake of our mapped products and the demand for o ur data. The latest advances in the semantic web and the visualization of dynamic maps will be utilized to maximize the dissemination and utility of this information. The resource will enable MAP to highlight and champion the public health benefits to all constituents of the international public health community, complementing the equally important dissemination of scientific output through the open-access peer-reviewed literature. In these ways the basic and operational impact of the research funding provided to MAP will be maximized.
Jan 2010 — Dec 2014
$435,236
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