The ENCODE project: Missteps overshadowing a success

2013/04/01 by Sean R. Eddy · 1 voice · 3 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research #Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.023

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• In 2012 the ENCODE project claimed that most of our genome 🧬 wasn't junk after all on the basis that most of it was active in some way 🧪 In response, @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social proposed the rando [bsky, 15 points, 2 comments]