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Major Results from The ENCODE Project

Read the first results from The ENCODE Project: The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE), the four-year effort to build a parts list of all biologically functional elements in 1 percent of the human genome.

Organized by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and carried out by 35 groups from 80 organizations around the world, the research served as a pilot to test the feasibility of a full-scale initiative to produce a comprehensive catalog of all components of the human genome crucial for biological function.

Collected here are the major findings, discussion, press coverage and ancillary research for this pioneering effort.

Read the ENCODE research consortium's Nature paper at: Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project
Nature, June 13, 2007

Read companion papers in: a special issue on ENCODE from Genome Research
June 2007

Read the NHGRI press release at: New Findings Challenge Established Views on Human Genome

Listen to a media teleconference hosted by the journal Nature on the ENCODE consortium's paper.
First Major Results from The ENCODE Project

Speakers at the June 13, 2007 teleconference were:



• Chris Gunter, Ph.D., Nature
• Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute
• Michael Snyder, Ph.D., Yale University
• Ewan Birney, Ph.D., European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  
  
• See illustrated results at: The ENCODE Poster [nature.com]
  A poster depicting some of the latest ENCODE findings. The poster is in pdf format that can be enlarged for easy reading.
  
  
• Explore the entire ENCODE Web Focus:
  Related articles on ENCODE from Nature
  
  

Related Information and Projects

• Learn more about ENCODE at: The ENCODE Project: ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements
  The main project page for ENCODE
  
  
• Learn more about modENCODE at: Fly and Worm Models to Teach Researchers About Human Biology and Medicine
  This four-year, $57 million scientific mission, which will serve to inform the ENCODE project, will identify all functional elements in the genomes of two key model organisms: fruit fly and round worm.

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