Michael A. Singer

TL;DR: Functional data from multiple, diverse experiments performed on a targeted 1% of the human genome as part of the pilot phase of the ENCODE Project are reported, providing convincing evidence that the genome is pervasively transcribed, such that the majority of its bases can be found in primary transcripts.

TL;DR: The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project is organized as an international consortium of computational and laboratory-based scientists working to develop and apply high-throughput approaches for detecting all sequence elements that confer biological function.

TL;DR: Genome-wide data and high-resolution array profiling demonstrated that there is no common specific subkaryotypic alteration that is required for reprograming and that reprogramming does not lead to genomic instability, and suggest that iPSCs should be considered a unique subtype of pluripotent cell.

TL;DR: A genome-wide map of active promoters in human fibroblast cells, determined by experimentally locating the sites of PIC binding throughout the human genome is described, providing a global view of the functional relationships among transcriptional machinery, chromatin structure and gene expression in human cells.

TL;DR: This work described a high-resolution, genome-scale approach for quantifying chromatin accessibility by measuring DNase I sensitivity as a continuous function of genome position using tiling DNA microarrays (DNase-array), and developed a computational approach for visualizing higher-order features of chromatin structure.