LONDON — About a year and a half after finding King Richard III’s corpse under a parking lot in Leicester, British scientists will proceed to grind up some of his bones to try to sequence his genome. They hope to discover his hair and eye color and see what kind of infectious bacteria he might have been hosting.

They have already confirmed that the last Plantagenet king had scoliosis, that he was infected with roundworm and that he died from the blow of a sharp instrument, like a sword or halberd, to the head.

The king died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, and his body was supposedly taken on horseback by the victor, Henry Tudor, who later became Henry VII, ending the Wars of the Roses. His body was brought to the Franciscan Greyfriars Friary in Leicester, where it was buried in a crude grave, but was later lost after the friary was dissolved in 1538 and demolished. The body was discovered and exhumed in 2012.

A geneticist, Turi King, will lead the project to produce the genome sequence, which will take about a year and is estimated to cost 100,000 British pounds (about $166,000), according to a statement from the project’s co-founders, the Wellcome Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.