The ENCODE project "will definitely have an impact on our medical research on cancer," Dr. Mark Rubin, a prostate cancer genomics researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College, told the Times.

An overview of the basics of encoding and transcoding, including an attempt to settle on some hitherto controversial definitions ...

What is ENCODE? “ENCODE is vast,” writes science writer Ed Yong towards the end of this massively comprehensive (albeit characteristically lucid) introduction to this ambitious international ...

Where to start? It's unlikely that you've missed any of the extensive media coverage the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has received over the past two weeks, after the international ...

The ENCODE publications report that 80.4% of the human genome displays some functionality. These data have important implications for interpreting results from large-scale genetics studies.

Encoding audio has always been a process of compromise. 16 or 24 bit? 44KHz, 48, or 96KHz? Risk clipping loud sounds, or lose detail to the noise floor in soft passages? But no more. Here’s what ...

The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurons in the retina encode what we "see" has been a tricky one. A key obstacle to understanding how ...

Here are more scientific takes on the “junk DNA” ENCODE study that has gotten so much media hype, along with my own comments. This post covers a lot of ground, so I’ve added subheds for the ...

Scientific American: The ENCODE project has revealed a landscape that is absolutely teeming with important genetic elements—a landscape that used to be dismissed as “junk DNA.” Were our old ...

How 'information' can be defined independently of the meaning of a message - and how the visual system and the brain take advantage of this in order for you to see.