I’m sure many of you will have seen recent newspaper articles about the publication of the first results from the Encode Project. ENCODE, the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, is a project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to identify all regions of transcription, transcription factor association, chromatin structure and histone modification in the human genome sequence. I have yet to find a good lay explanation but those with a biology background may find this link interesting. The really brave can dip into the data presented as threads here.