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cord-012473-p66of6kq	Celniker, Susan E.	Unlocking the secrets of the genome	2009-06-17		.txt	text/plain	2556	119	37	T he primary objective of the Human Genome Project was to produce highquality sequences not just for the human genome but also for those of the chief model organisms: Escherichia coli, yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), worm (Caenorhabditis elegans), fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and mouse (Mus musculus). Free access to the resultant data has prompted much biological research, including development of a map of common human genetic variants (the International HapMap Project) 1 , expression profiling of healthy and diseased cells 2 and in-depth studies of many individual genes. On the basis of this experience, the NHGRI launched two complementary programmes in 2007: an expansion of the human ENCODE project to the whole genome (www.genome.gov/ENCODE) and the model organism ENCODE (modENCODE) project to generate a comprehensive annotation of the functional elements in the C. The research communities that study these two organisms will rapidly make use of the modENCODE results, deploying powerful experimental approaches that are often not possible or practical in mammals, including genetic, genomic, transgenic, biochemical and RNAi assays.	./cache/cord-012473-p66of6kq.txt	./txt/cord-012473-p66of6kq.txt