NIH to expand genomics catalog for research community | Health Data Management

"The National Institutes of Health is expanding its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, creating high-quality and easily accessible sets of data, tools and analyses used to interpret genome sequences and to understand the consequence of disease-linked genomic variation.

Launched in 2003, ENCODE is an effort to generate a comprehensive catalog of functional DNA elements within genomes, enabling researchers to study human health and disease. To date, more than 1,700 scientific publications generated by the research community have used ENCODE data or tools."