Sandwalk

A hard-hitting review will be published in Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics . It shows that the case for large numbers of functi...

The new complete human genome sequence gives us a first-time look at the structures of human centromeres. This is my sixth post on the c...

The new complete human genome sequence adds an extra 8% of DNA sequence that's a source of variation in the human population. The sequen...

How can different molecular biologists have such opposite views of the history of their field? I'm posting links to two papers wit...

A detailed examination of the new complete human genome reveals that 54% of it consists of various repetitive elements. Some of them are tra...

Check out this freshperson seminar course on Parts Unknown: The Dark Matter of the Genome at Harvard. It is offfered by Amanda J. Whipple ...

Karen Miga deserves a lot of the credit for the complete human genome sequence. Karen Miga is a professor at the University of Califo...

It's going to be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to merge the new complete human genome sequence with the current standard refe...

The new completed human genome sequence contains some previously unknown large duplicatons (segmental duplications). This is my third...

The newly sequenced part of the human genome contains the same chromatin regions as the rest of the genome and they don't tell us very m...

The first complete human genome sequence has finally been published. This is my first post on the complete telomere-to-telomere sequence...

A few months ago, the press office of the University of California at San Diego issued a press release with a provocative title ... Illu...

John Mattick and Paulo Amaral have written a book that promotes their views on the content of the human genome. It will be available next Au...

John Mattick has a new book coming out in August where he defends the notion that most of our genome is full of genes for functonal noncodin...

Science editors asked young scientists to imagine what kind of course they would have created if they could go back to a time before the pa...