Want to understand what this ENCODE thing is all about? Watch this amazing animated…
Want to understand what this ENCODE thing is all about? Watch this amazing animated movie very elegantly explaining the basics of what makes this project so exciting and what the implications are on a level that even non scientist understand! Brilliantly done +Nature Publishing Group!
Genomes Certainly Are Tricky!
Thanks +Benedetta Frida Baldi for this great find!
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we’ve been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structur…
4 Replies to “Want to understand what this ENCODE thing is all about? Watch this amazing animated…”
Lots of good data in Encode, but is it true that it "hugely advances understanding of who you are, where you come from, and how genetic disorders happen" as hyped in this video, or that scientists were previously just stupid about junk DNA and it's all clear now as implied? I've read my way through a good number of the papers, don't see it. Starting to get nauseated with all the animated and non-animated hype.
Lots of good data in Encode, but is it true that it "hugely advances understanding of who you are, where you come from, and how genetic disorders happen" as hyped in this video, or that scientists were previously just stupid about junk DNA and it's all clear now as implied? I've read my way through a good number of the papers, don't see it. Starting to get nauseated with all the animated and non-animated hype.
Well, at least for a video like this from Nature I can understand that they try to make the story a bit more clear than it might be and do a bit of overselling. Though Nature should know better and should understand what kind of disappointment this can lead to for the general public (as they make clear themselves about the human genome project).
Anyway I think you're absolutely correct about things being "clear now". The story is still way more complex than we can gasp and a project like this is most likely leading to more questions than actually reducing them.
Though I still think that a data generation project like this can help future projects massively with the now vast amount of ready to use data which has all been generated and analysed by consistent pipelines and thus should be easy to use in many applications.
Well, at least for a video like this from Nature I can understand that they try to make the story a bit more clear than it might be and do a bit of overselling. Though Nature should know better and should understand what kind of disappointment this can lead to for the general public (as they make clear themselves about the human genome project).
Anyway I think you're absolutely correct about things being "clear now". The story is still way more complex than we can gasp and a project like this is most likely leading to more questions than actually reducing them.
Though I still think that a data generation project like this can help future projects massively with the now vast amount of ready to use data which has all been generated and analysed by consistent pipelines and thus should be easy to use in many applications.