ENCODE, the $185-million successor to the Human Genome Project, promises to reveal new details about our DNA. But controversy persists as geneticists remain at odds over one little f-word—"function" ...

Less than 2% of the human genome encodes proteins 1. A grand challenge for genomic sciences has been mapping the functional elements — the regions that determine the extent to which genes are ...

The ENCODE pilot project 8 focused on just 1% of the genome — a mere appetizer — and its results hinted that the list of human genes was incomplete. Although there was scepticism about the feasibility ...