Parasites are GO

The Malaria Genome Sequencing Consortium Meeting was held on 5-6 June 2001 in Cambridge, UK, and was followed by a workshop discussing the generation of new parasite-specific gene ontology (GO) terms. Present at the meeting, which focused primarily on malaria, were representatives from the research community, the sequencing centres, including the Sanger Centre (Cambridge, UK) and The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR; Rockville, MD, USA), the E uropean Bioinformatics Institute (EBI; Cambridge, UK), Plasmo DB and the GO consortium (Cambridge, UK).