Nat. Genet. 39, 120–125 (2007); published online 10 December 2006; corrected after print 8 February 2007

In the original version of this paper, the authors failed to acknowledge that sequencing of the P. falciparum IT laboratory isolate was funded by a European Union 6th Framework Program grant to the BioMalPar Consortium (contract number LSHP-LT-2004-503578). This error has been corrected in the PDF version of the article.