[4] This project was under Africa@home where the latter was conceived and developed by European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

Each work unit lasted for an hour in average personal computers and the results were returned to University of Geneva for evaluation by researchers.

[8] On 21 June 2016, malariacontrol.net announced that the project has been terminated due to financial constraints in upgrading their servers for further volunteer computing operations.

[14] In 2013, malariacontrol.net had examined the effectiveness of Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT) and other surveillance tools in detecting malaria infections among high and low Plasmodium falciparum transmissions.

Similar to the general BOINC users, malariacontrol.net mainly had a volunteer base of males ranged from 20 to 50 years old, mostly staying in European countries and North America.