 Genomics is now an integral part of all of the life sciences. Not that every life scientist is now a genomicist—there are still researchers who focus on the biochemistry, development, or the molecular networks of human cells and other organisms. But the DNA sequences of the human genome and the numerous model organisms that came out of the HGP enter every laboratory, if not on a daily basis than at least at some stage of every research project. The same applies to the maps of genetic variation that were discussed in Section 3 and to the (somewhat controversial) data on functional DNA elements that the ENCODE project generated (see the supplementary document  The ENCODE Project and the ENCODE Controversy).