The Mighty Fruit Fly Moves into Outbred Genetics

Ewan Birney * E-mail: birney@ebi.ac.uk Affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8314-8497Citation: Birney E (2016) The Mighty Fruit Fly Moves into Outbred Genetics. Ewan Birney is a paid consultant to both Oxford Nanopore and GSK companies, and a non-executive director of Genomics England Ltd. January 2016's issue of PLOS Genetics has an outbred genetics study in body size traits [1], perhaps one of the most studied parts of human genetics, but in a somewhat surprising organism--fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster).