20 years ago, the sequencing of the human genome gave us our own blueprint, right? Wrong — it actually gave us an encrypted blueprint! Every gene is there, but information about its function is effectively encrypted. Today’s announcement at #CASP14 is a universal decryption key, which scientists have been hunting…

On 26th June 2000, the “working draft” of the human genome sequence was to great fanfare. Its availability has gone on to revolutionise biomedical research . But this iconic event, twenty years ago today, is also a reference point for the value and power of openness and its evolution. Biology’s first mega project Back…