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But nowadays, these researchers are facing a historical reversal in terms of experimental limitations. As more microarrays and other genomic tools become available鈥攁nd hopefully increasingly affordable鈥攖he genotyping part of the problem, which traditionally has been most time-consuming, is not that complicated anymore. The real bottleneck is now phenotyping.</p> <p>In an <a href="https://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v4/n6/full/nmeth0607-463.html">Editorial</a> in <em>Nature Methods</em> June issue, we argue that this realization should be a call to arms for engineers.</p> <p>While we think there is a crucial need to mobilize engineers to help develop assays and instrumentation for high-throughput phenotyping of model organisms, this task is not without obstacles. The Editorial starts exploring ways to make this work. 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