Encode and our very busy genome

The much-anticipated publication of the ENCODE pilot project, representing a detailed and comprehensive characterization of 1% of the human genome, has demonstrated how little we truly

understand about how our genes are regulated. Transcripts are nearly everywhere, regulatory sequences remain poorly defined and evolutionary conservation is a surprisingly inadequate

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