First they sequenced it. Now they have surveyed its hinterlands. But no one knows how much more information the human genome holds, or when to stop looking for it.
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Maher, B. ENCODE: The human encyclopaedia. Nature 489, 46–48 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/489046a
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