Last week Alok reported the results from the international Encode project – "the most significant shift in scientists' understanding of the way our DNA operates since the sequencing of the human genome in 2000".
This is the full-length version of an interview with one of the principal investigators on the project, Dr Ewan Birney of the European Bioinformatics Institute near Cambridge. A shorter version of the interview featured in this week's Science Weekly podcast.
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