What is ENCODE? “ENCODE is vast,” writes science writer Ed Yong towards the end of this massively comprehensive (albeit characteristically lucid) introduction to this ambitious international genome ...

Here are more scientific takes on the “junk DNA”ENCODEstudy that has gotten so much media hype, along with my own comments. This post covers a lot of ground, so I’ve added subheds for the various ...

Where to start? It's unlikely that you've missed any of the extensive media coverage the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has received over the past two weeks, after the international ...

The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project is a public research consortium that aims to identify all functional elements of the human genome sequence (Encode, 2004 Science).The ENCODE pilot ...

In the 1970s, when biologists first glimpsed the landscape of human genes, they saw that the small pieces of DNA that coded for proteins (known as exons) seemed to float like bits of wood in a sea of ...