Lessons for big-data projects

摘要

The ENCODE consortium has for the past five years been building up an encyclopaedia of functional DNA elements to be used as a reference for the scientific community. Today it publishes 30 publicly accessible papers in three journals - and all are connected to the processed analysis and raw data. This scientific undertaking has inspired new publishing models, such as the interweaving of topic threads between papers in different journals, and will, I hope, have a large impact on biology.