ENCODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encode mean? 

• ENCODE (verb)
  The verb ENCODE has 1 sense:

1. convert information into code

  Familiarity information: ENCODE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCODE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they encode    ... he / she / it encodes   
Past simple: encoded   
Past participle: encoded   
-ing form: encoding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert information into code

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

encode pictures digitally

Hypernyms (to "encode" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "encode"):

cipher; code; cypher; encipher; encrypt; inscribe; write in code (convert ordinary language into code)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

decode (convert code into ordinary language)

Derivation:

encoding (the activity of converting data or information into code)

 Context examples 

To create a genetic clock, the team measured the levels of every gene encoded in messenger RNA molecules from cells from the heads and bodies of flies at 3, 10, 30, and 45 days after birth.

(NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)

This allele, which encodes Abl interactor 2 protein, is involved in signal transduction, nuclear processes, tumor suppression.

(ABI2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

So far, the best way to transmit qubits is to encode them in particles of light, called photons.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs 1 (967 aa, ~105 kDa) is encoded by the human ADAMTS1 gene.

(A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease with Thrombospondin Motifs 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The cells could read the RNA 'software' to perform the encoded tasks, which could make the cells detect abnormal states, infections, or trigger developmental programs.

(Cells Programmed Like Computers to Fight Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This allele, which encodes multidrug resistance protein 1, is involved in transmembrane transport.

(ABCB1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Our findings link zinc levels in neurons—via interactions with the proteins encoded by these genes—to the development of autism.

(Zinc Deficiency during Pregnancy Linked to Autism in Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Meiotic recombination protein SPO11 (396 aa, ~45 kDa) is encoded by the human SPO11 gene.

(Meiotic Recombination Protein SPO11, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2A protein, is involved in both myogenesis and growth factor or stress-stimulated transcriptional regulation.

(MEF2A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs 9 (1935 aa, ~216 kDa) is encoded by the human ADAMTS9 gene.

(A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease with Thrombospondin Motifs 9, NCI Thesaurus)