GENOMICS: Sanger Will Sequence Zebrafish Genome.

As the international human genome project nears completion, the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, U.K., has settled on a new effort to keep its sequencing machines humming: the genome of the zebrafish, a model organism much loved by developmental geneticists. After nearly 4 years of lobbying biomedical funding agencies, scientists who study the 4-centimeter Danio rerio are delighted.