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Too much information? Not for long

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The far-reaching, National Human Genome Research Institute backed ENCODE project hopes to advance the state-of-the-art of genomic analysis and derive the definitive functional index of the human genome.

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  1. ENCODE Project Consortium. The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project. Science 306, 636–640 (2004).

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  1. The ENCODE project homepage: http://www.genome.gov/ENCODE

  2. The UCSC genome browser: http://genome.cse.ucsc.edu/ENCODE

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Eisenstein, M. Too much information? Not for long. Nat Methods 1, 190 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1204-190a

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