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Nature 447, 361 (24 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447361a; Published online 23 May 2007

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Geneticists enlist model organisms to help crack code.

Worms and flies are to be enlisted by researchers attempting to make sense of the instructions embedded in the human genome.Since 2003, geneticists in the United States have been engaged in the pilot phase of a project called ENCODE — the Encyclopedia of DNA elements — which aims to catalogue all the functional parts of the human genome at a cost of around US$20 million a year.