ENCODE Project Writes Eulogy for Junk DNA

30 research papers, including six in Nature and additional papers published online by Science, sound the death knell for the idea that our DNA is mostly littered with useless bases (Pennisi, 2012).

In reality- Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), has found that 100% of the human genome serves the cells purpose. Ewan Birney, is predicting that the human genome will soon prove to be 100% functional.
Ed Yong, “ENCODE: the Rough Guide to the Human Genome, ” (Yong, 2012).

Birney said , “We don’t really have any large chunks of redundant DNA. This metaphor of junk isn’t that useful.”

Reference

Pennisi, E. (2012). ENCODE Project Writes Eulogy for Junk DNA. Science Magazine, 337(6099), 1159–1161. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/337/6099/1159. Encode Project Writes Eulogy for JUNK DNA.

Yong, E. (2012). ENCODE: the rough guide to the human genome. National Geographic. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/09/05/encode-the-rough-guide-to-the-human-genome/