Construction of a library for sequencing long regions of malarial genomic DNA.

size of 150 (p >0.05). The cost of the consumables for the assay is approximately 10% less expensive than the dot blot assay. A plate containing 80 samples can be analyzed in under 30 min by the fluorescence-based assay, an eighth of the time required per sample for the dot blot; a single operator can easily assay over 1100 samples per day, compared to 240 samples by dot blot. Furthermore, the assay is readily automatable using a proprietary robotic workstation. The assay has not yet been fully validated for forensic casework samples and is used solely on samples submitted for intelligence databasing purposes.