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 ...

Less than 2% of the human genome encodes proteins 1. A grand challenge for genomic sciences has been mapping the functional elements — the regions that determine the extent to which genes are ...

“When the first draft of the human genome was completed . . . it became immediately clear that while we had the primary sequence of the genome, or we had a draft of it . . . we needed to have an ...