“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 ...

The Human Genome Project produced an almost complete order of the 3 billion pairs of chemical letters in the DNA that embodies the human genetic code -- but little about the way this blueprint works.

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 ...

Our genes play a major role in making us who we are, but a lot of information about their function has been mysterious. That’s why an international team of researchers set out to figure out what the ...

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 ...

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 ...