"What we learned from ENCODE is how complicated the human genome is, and the incredible choreography that is going on with the immense number of switches that are choreographing how genes are used ...

URL encoding translates URLs into a standard format readable by browsers. Learn how it allows seamless browsing of pages with spaces and symbols ...

An overview of the basics of encoding and transcoding, including an attempt to settle on some hitherto controversial definitions ...

Encoding audio has always been a process of compromise. 16 or 24 bit? 44KHz, 48, or 96KHz? Risk clipping loud sounds, or lose detail to the noise floor in soft passages? But no more. Here’s what ...

What is ENCODE? “ENCODE is vast,” writes science writer Ed Yong towards the end of this massively comprehensive (albeit characteristically lucid) introduction to this ambitious international ...

Where to start? It's unlikely that you've missed any of the extensive media coverage the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project has received over the past two weeks, after the international ...

The moment we open our eyes, we perceive the world with apparent ease. But the question of how neurons in the retina encode what we "see" has been a tricky one. A key obstacle to understanding how ...

Here are more scientific takes on the “junk DNA” ENCODE study that has gotten so much media hype, along with my own comments. This post covers a lot of ground, so I’ve added subheds for the ...

Scientific American: The ENCODE project has revealed a landscape that is absolutely teeming with important genetic elements—a landscape that used to be dismissed as “junk DNA.” Were our old ...

How 'information' can be defined independently of the meaning of a message - and how the visual system and the brain take advantage of this in order for you to see.