Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2011
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001046
Abstract
The mission of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project is to enable the scientific and medical communities to interpret the human genome sequence and apply it to understand human biology and improve health. The ENCODE Consortium is integrating multiple technologies and approaches in a collective effort to discover and define the functional elements encoded in the human genome, including genes, transcripts, and transcriptional regulatory regions, together with their attendant chromatin states and DNA methylation patterns. In the process, standards to ensure high-quality data have been implemented, and novel algorithms have been developed to facilitate analysis. Data and derived results are made available through a freely accessible database. Here we provide an overview of the project and the resources it is generating and illustrate the application of ENCODE data to interpret the human genome.
Copyright Statement
This document was originally published by PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) in PLOS Biology. This work is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001046
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Publication Information
Giddings, Morgan and Risk, Brian. (2011). "A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)". PLOS Biology, 9(4), .