Title |
Providing open access data online to advance malaria research and control
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Published in |
Malaria Journal, May 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-12-161 |
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Authors |
Catherine L Moyes, William H Temperley, Andrew J Henry, Clara R Burgert, Simon I Hay |
Abstract |
To advance research on malaria, the outputs from existing studies and the data that fed into them need to be made freely available. This will ensure new studies can build on the work that has gone before. These data and results also need to be made available to groups who are developing public health policies based on up-to-date evidence. The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) has collated and geopositioned over 50,000 parasite prevalence and vector occurrence survey records contributed by over 3,000 sources including research groups, government agencies and non-governmental organizations worldwide. This paper describes the results of a project set up to release data gathered, used and generated by MAP. |
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