An international team of molecular biologists, computer scientists and physicists has found a way to encode useable digital data onto DNA strands 350 times faster than current approaches. In their ...

“When the first draft of the human genome was completed . . . it became immediately clear that while we had the primary sequence of the genome, or we had a draft of it . . . we needed to have an ...

Researchers at Monash University have built a single nanoscale chip that generates, steers, and electrically reads ...

Six papers on the ENCODE project are published in the September 6 issue of A massive international collaboration has enabled scientists to assign specific functions for 80 percent of the human genome, ...

The data has been processed by removing missing values, editing bad data, and normalizing the numeric age and income values. The sex, region, and political leaning fields must be encoded. The ultimate ...

At present, it is in its fourth round of funding, and the NIH has awarded grants to a group of institutions from all over the United States to perform research as part of this project. Apart from ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Remember that news-making ENCODE study with ...