September 5, 2012 | The 30 papers published this week on the ENCODE project represent five years of work from more than 400 scientists, one of whom was Ewan Birney, the lead analysis coordinator. But in telling the story repeatedly for the media, only parts of it get picked up – "the shiny bits that make a neat story for one audience or another." Here, Birney blogs about his personal perspective of the ENCODE story uncut, from beginning to end. Ewan's Blog