Learnings So Far From The ENCODE Project
What is ENCODE ?ENCODE, an acronym for Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, is a publicly funded research projectinitiated in 2003 by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Results of the pilot phase was published in June 2007 in Nature. After the success of pilot phase, ENCODE was given a go ahead to scale up and analyze the entire genome. It has extended our learnings from work completed in 2001 by the Human Genome Project to sequence all 3 billion chemical base pairs in human DNA.
