Genomics: users' guide to the human genome.

The article focuses on five companion papers on the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Consortium (ENCODE) which were published in the periodical "Nature." S. Neph and colleagues used DNaseI footprinting to study regulatory factor binding sites in 41 types of cells and tissues. R. E. Thurman and colleagues found out unexpected relations among chromatin accessibility, proliferative potential and patterns of human variation. Dekker and colleagues used chromosome conformation capture carbon copy (5C).