The Human Genome Project produced an almost complete order of the 3 billion pairs of chemical letters in the DNA that embodies the human genetic code -- but little about the way this blueprint works.

The ENCODE project--the initial results of which were released last week--was in some ways a computational biology phenomenon. The project, which found that 80% of human DNA is active and necessary, ...

The results of a gigantic biology project — called ENCODE — were released today. The project covered ten years of effort by over 400 scientists and has culminated in 30 scientific papers published ...

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. – Most people understand genes to be specific segments of DNA that determine traits or diseases that are inherited. Textbooks suggest that genes are copied ("transcribed") ...

A torrent of new data charts the human genome in unprecedented detail, a landmark accomplishment compared by some scientists to the genome's sequencing in 1999. Hundreds of thousands of new genomic ...

Back in 2001, the Human Genome Project gave us a nigh-complete readout of our DNA. Somehow, those As, Gs, Cs, and Ts contained the full instructions for making one of us, but they were hardly a simple ...