Re-Imagining Our Genes: ENCODE Project Reveals Genome as an Information Processing System

Thirty-one papers simultaneously published by the ENCODE (Enc yclopedia o f D NA E lements) project indelibly repaint the picture of the human genome, throwing its information-processing characteristics into even sharper relief. (The whole collection—six papers in Nature , 18 in Genome Research , four in Genome Biology , and one in BioMed Central Genetics —is posted with open access at Nature Encode . The lead article, “Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data ,” is must reading for information-systems designers.) Just a few years ago, the prevailing wisdom said that the genome comprises 3 percent or so genes and 97 percent “junk” (with 2 or 3 percent of that junk consisting of the fossilized remains of retroviruses that infected our ancestors somewhere along the line). After a decade of painstaking analysis by more than 200 scientists, the new...

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