The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery: Cell

October 18, 2025

Capstone reviews/perspectives for reference

**IHEC**

The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg ∙ The International Human Epigenome Consortium4 ∙ Martin Hirst

Stunnenberg, H. G., Hirst, M., Abrignani, S., Adams, D., De Almeida, M., Altucci, L., Amin, V., Amit, I., Antonarakis, S. E., Aparicio, S., Arima, T., Arrigoni, L., Arts, R., Asnafi, V., Esteller, M., Bae, J., Bassler, K., Beck, S., Berkman, B., . . . Zipprich, G. (2016). The International Human Epigenome Consortium: a blueprint for Scientific collaboration and Discovery. Cell, 167(5), 1145–1149.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.007

** EXRNA**

The Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium: Establishing Foundational Knowledge and Technologies for Extracellular RNA Research

Das, S., Ansel, K. M., Bitzer, M., Breakefield, X. O., Charest, A., Galas, D. J., Gerstein, M. B., Gupta, M., Milosavljevic, A., McManus, M. T., Patel, T., Raffai, R. L., Rozowsky, J., Roth, M. E., Saugstad, J. A., Van Keuren-Jensen, K., Weaver, A. M., Laurent, L. C., Abdel-Mageed, A. B., . . . Zhang, H. (2019). The Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium: Establishing foundational knowledge and technologies for extracellular RNA research. Cell, 177(2), 231–242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.023

**ENCODE3**

Perspectives on ENCODE
The ENCODE Project Consortium, Michael P Snyder 1,2,✉, Thomas R Gingeras 3, Jill E Moore 4, Zhiping Weng 4,5,6, Mark B Gerstein 7, Bing Ren 8,9, Ross C Hardison 10, John A Stamatoyannopoulos 11,12,13, Brenton R Graveley 14, Elise A Feingold 15, Michael J Pazin 15, Michael Pagan 15, Daniel A Gilchrist 15, Benjamin C Hitz 1, J Michael Cherry 1, Bradley E Bernstein 16, Eric M Mendenhall 17,18, Daniel R Zerbino 19, Adam Frankish 19, Paul Flicek 19, Richard M Myers 18

Abascal, F., Acosta, R., Addleman, N. J., Adrian, J., Afzal, V., Aken, B., Ai, R., Akiyama, J. A., Jammal, O. A., Amrhein, H., Anderson, S. M., Andrews, G. R., Antoshechkin, I., Ardlie, K. G., Armstrong, J., Astley, M., Banerjee, B., Barkal, A. A., Barnes, I. H. A., . . . Myers, R. M. (2020).

Perspectives on ENCODE. Nature, 583(7818), 693–698.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2449-8