Six years ago, radiologist Michael Zalis found himself spending a lot of time logging in and out of separate electronic health records at Massachusetts General Hospital to gather lab data, clinical notes, and other non-imaging information scattered in multiple databases.

FORBES: Making Electronic Health Records More Efficient

The fruit fly, one of science's other favourite lab models, has already been subjected to extensive chemical mutagenesis, providing researchers with a wealth of useful genomic data.

BBC: Mice mutants probe human genome