Phew, the internet is abuzz with the newest publication of Nature by the ENCODE Project Consortium.
I'm just starting to chew on it, but if you're interested at all in human genetics, a great place to start would be Ed Yong's post on it. It's about as comprehensive as the paper's themselves (there's a few). I'm getting into both of them right now, but Nature.com also has a super cool graphical interface to get you started.
I'm starting here.
(Ed Yong's post is a great place to start, because he's doing an awesome job keeping up with what other scientists are saying quite publicly about this work. Fun times--It helps that the authors make a pretty audacious statement that over 80% of the human genome, you know, does stuff. And that's ruffling a lot of feathers. Because other scientists maybe are taking it personally? I love science.)
