- The Cryptosporidium parvum genome project - home page. This web site describes the resources generated during the C. parvum genome project, undertaken while I was a PhD student at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. The genome project was initiated in 1996 with two main aims: 1) to make a genome map of Cryptosporidium parvum using the HAPPY mapping technique. 2) to make a large ...www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/happy/CRYPTO/crypto-genome.html