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[en-kohd] / ɛnˈkoʊd /


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These high expectations for noncoding DNA peaked last fall thanks to an ambitious project known as ENCODE.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2013

Thanks to ENCODE, though, we should eventually learn which sequences are the junk and which are the gems of cell activity.

From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2012

Ewan Birney would like to create a printout of all the genomic data that he and his collaborators have been collecting for the past five years as part of ENCODE, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements.

From Nature • Sep. 5, 2012

That, according to Dr Hubbard, is the thrilling frontier for labs like those that worked on ENCODE.

From Economist • Sep. 5, 2012

As part of ENCODE, 32 institutions did computer analyses, biochemical tests, and sequencing studies on 147 cell types—six fairly extensively—to find out what each of the genome's 3 billion bases does.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 5, 2012




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