DNA can hold a staggering amount of information. Not only is it the blueprint for all life on Earth, but a single gram of DNA can store the equivalent of 215 million gigabytes of data. That’s ...

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 ...

First holistic view of how human genome actually works: ENCODE study produces massive data set Date: September 5, 2012 Source: NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute ...

Friction over Function: Scientists Clash on the Meaning of ENCODE s Genetic Data. Francie Diep. Fri, April 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM UTC.

DNA has been used for years to store data, but encoding information into the molecule is painstaking work. Now, researchers have drastically sped it up by mimicking a natural biological process ...

The results of a gigantic biology project — called ENCODE — were released today. The project covered ten years of effort by over 400 scientists and has culminated in 30 scientific papers ...

ENCODE's organization of information is hierarchical, with raw data at the bottom and layers of annotation above. The processed summaries become progressively broader — for example, starting at ...

Scientists encode data into artificial molecules. An illustration of the structure of MOF 74, which could be used to create programmable materials. Lawence Berkeley National Laboratory.

It turns out there's a purpose to the so-called "junk" DNA comprising most of the human genome--and health technology will play a major role in unlocking more of its secrets.

ENCODE, the $185-million successor to the Human Genome Project, promises to reveal new details about our DNA. But controversy persists as geneticists remain at odds over one little f-word—"function" ...