One kakapo genome has already been sequenced at a US university, and now the other 124 will be analysed by a team at the University of Otago in southern New Zealand. "The questions we can answer will be limited only by our imagination," Associate Prof Bruce Robertson, a molecular ecologist, tells the site. "As with the human genome project, we'll be mining this for many years to come, and new and novel things will come out of it." Researchers are hoping to raise US$45,000 (£31,000) towards the cost of the study through crowdfunding , and are currently more than halfway to their goal.