f914122ab868bbb624a21e6b4a2434ac7036e5c8 jnavarr5 Mon Aug 19 09:27:46 2019 -0700 Replacing a special encoding for an apostrophe carried over from the Google Doc, refs #20314 diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html index 4d7a7f3..a09de2b 100755 --- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html +++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/history.html @@ -165,31 +165,31 @@ most notably those at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Reciprocal links provided on each of the three browsers allow researchers to jump from any place in the human genome to the same region on either of the other two browsers.</p> <h2>The ENCODE Project</h2> <p> The human genome contains vast amounts of information, and all of the functions of a human cell are implicitly coded in the human genome. With the molecular sequence known, researchers have been mining it for clues as to how the body works in health and in disease. Ultimately laying out the plan for the complex pathways of molecular interactions that the sequence orchestrates. The UCSC Genome Browser aids the worldwide scientific community in its challenge to understand the genome, to probe it with new experimental and informatics methodologies, and to decode the genetic program of the cell.</p> <p> -After the sequence of the genome was first available, a researcher’s ability to decode that sequence +After the sequence of the genome was first available, a researcher's ability to decode that sequence and tap into the wealth of information it holds was still quite limited. The next step beyond viewing the genome is gaining an understanding of the instructions encoded in it. Toward this end, the UCSC Genome Browser group participated as the data collection center for the <a href="https://www.encodeproject.org/" target="_blank">ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project</a>, an international endeavor to generate a comprehensive parts list of all the functional components in the human genome.</p> <p> ENCODE is a scientific reconnaissance mission aimed at discovering all regions of the human genome crucial to biological function. Before ENCODE, scientists focused on finding the genes, or protein-coding regions in DNA sequences, but these account for only about 1.5% of the genetic material of humans and other mammals. Non-coding regions of the genome have important functions, and the ENCODE project is developing a comprehensive "parts list" by identifying and precisely locating all functional elements in the human genome. This project, sponsored by the <a href="https://www.genome.gov/" target="_blank">National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)</a>, involves an international consortium of scientists from government, industry, and