New Declaration on Data Sharing in Mouse Functional Genomics The CASIMIR consortium, which is jointly led by MRC Harwell, recently held a meeting in Rome attended by scientists, lawyers, journal editors and representative of funding organisations to discuss data release in mouse functional genomics. The group came to a clear statement of an agenda, the “Rome Agenda”, which challenges the mouse functional genomics community to minimise impediments to the availability of both mouse lines and other resources and related data Nature Journal .