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This Week in PLoS

Apr 25, 2011

In PLoS Biology this week, members of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements — or ENCODE — Project Consortium present an overview of the initiative in the form of a user's guide. The group hopes the guide will "facilitate the interpretation of the human genome" using ENCODE data.

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