"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

ENCODE also looked for places in the genome where proteins stick to DNA – sites where, most likely, the proteins are switching a gene on or off.

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 ...