“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 ...

In a novel form of peer review, a biologist has given an colorfully fiery critique of a genome research consortium. Here's why. By Rebecca Boyle Published Feb 25, 2013 9:59 PM EST Get the Popular ...

In the 12 years since the human genome was sequenced, so many critters have had their DNA deciphered—oysters, bees, eels, camels, clawed frogs, elephant sharks—that it’s hard to suppress a yawn ...

Six papers on the ENCODE project are published in the September 6 issue of A massive international collaboration has enabled scientists to assign specific functions for 80 percent of the human genome, ...

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 ...

When the human genome was sequenced a decade ago, scientists hailed the feat as a technical tour de force — but they also knew it was just a start. The “HHA000078” DNA blueprint was finally laid bare, ...

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 ...

In three back-to-back papers and five pages of the April 25, 1953, issue of Nature, seven authors laid out the evidence and interpretation that established the double helical structure of DNA. As ever ...

At present, it is in its fourth round of funding, and the NIH has awarded grants to a group of institutions from all over the United States to perform research as part of this project. Apart from ...

The results of a gigantic biology project — called ENCODE — were released today. The project covered ten years of effort by over 400 scientists and has culminated in 30 scientific papers published ...