This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Remember that news-making ENCODE study with ...

ENCODE, the $185-million successor to the Human Genome Project, promises to reveal new details about our DNA. But controversy persists as geneticists remain at odds over one little f-word—"function" ...

def ord_str(sv, dict): v = dict[sv] # 0 or 1 or 2 or . . return str(v) If you want to use some other form of encoding, such as effect coding or orthogonal encoding, you would define a helper function ...