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ENCODE: The human encyclopaedia

First they sequenced it. Now they have surveyed its hinterlands. But no one knows how much more information the human genome holds, or when to stop looking for it.

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Maher, B. ENCODE: The human encyclopaedia. Nature 489, 46–48 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489046a

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