ENCODE Project at UCSC
NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection entry number 985
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics staff
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Contact genome@soe.ucsc.edu
Database Description
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched a public research consortium named ENCODE, the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements, in September 2003, to carry out a project to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence.
The goal of the first two phases of the ENCODE project is to identify a suite of approaches that will allow the comprehensive identification of all the functional elements in the human genome. Through the ENCODE pilot, NHGRI expects to assess the abilities of different approaches to be scaled up for an effort to analyze the entire human genome and to find gaps in our ability to identify functional elements in genomic sequence.
Category: Human and other Vertebrate Genomes
Subcategory: Human genome databases, maps and viewers
Category: Human and other Vertebrate Genomes
Subcategory: Human ORFs
Go to the abstract in the NAR 2007 Database Issue.
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