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The Story of You: ENCODE and the Human Genome

Encompassing the largest analysis of human DNA sequences since the Human Genome Project, the ENCODE project has provided scientists with the most comprehensive look yet at what is going on in the “rest” of our genome. It’s a very cool thing, and a Big Deal™. Of course, it’s not the first time that we’ve been told that important things are happening elsewhere in our genome, and it probably has quite a few chucks of data in it that won’t pan out. But hey, that’s science.

Even if the research teams (dozens of them!) raised a few eyebrows with the way they announced the data, ENCODE is still a major milestone in deciphering the function of the darker regions of the human genome. Here’s a video to introduce what it means.

I’ll have more on what the ENCODE project found later this week! Should be a fun exploration.

(video by NatureVideoChannel)