An ambitious effort to work out the function of all of the approximately 21,000 protein-coding genes in the mouse genome has the funds it requires for the initial phase of its mission. After a meeting in Washington DC last week, the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, which was launched last year (see Nature 465,410; 2010), announced that research agencies in eight countries will analyse 5,000 mouse genes by 2016, with part of the work being financed by the US National Institutes of Health.
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