ENCODE Under Scrutiny

February 25, 2013 | The ENCODE project has received a thorough dressing down in a new Genome Biology and Evolution paper by Dan Graur and colleagues. The authors highlight six major errors in the ENCODE project that led to "absurd conclusion[s]". Derek Lowe breaks down the claims (accusations?) on his blog. "Whether you agree with its authors or not," Lowe says, "it's well worth reading - you just don't see thunderous dissents like this one in the scientific literature very often." In the Pipeline