Streaming media production starts with the infinite real world as captured by the lenses of our camcorders, and ends with the tightly compressed files necessary for streaming delivery. Along the way, ...

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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 genome ...

Here are more scientific takes on the “junk DNA”ENCODEstudy 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 various ...

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 ...

What is encoding? And is it as important to the science of reading as its counterpart, decoding? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz. Once you complete the quiz, you can see how your score compares ...

A paper that will appear in today's edition of Nature starts off with a bang, its first sentence being "The human genome is an elegant but cryptic store of information." The paper's goal is nothing ...

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I dunno, I thought this would be something that would make sense, but maybe there's no market need? For a lot of users, there's no real need for a full fat graphics card: what they really need are the ...