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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
encode
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gene
▪ The paired box has recently been established as a DNA-binding element, thus Pax genes are likely to encode transcription factors.
▪ The role of genes encoding other alcohol metabolising enzymes in a genetic predisposition to alcoholic liver damage has yet to be explored.
▪ Identification of the gene encoding s-ADH and the eventual search for polymorphisms are awaited with interest.
▪ The genes encoding the protein are packaged such that the encoded protein is displayed on the outside of the package.
▪ Therefore, the genes encoding these proteins were chosen for insertion into the triple gene transfer vector.
information
▪ In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism.
▪ In this case, the translator may decide to encode the relevant information lexically, as in the following examples.
▪ It is based on encoding multimedia information on the reflective surface of a silvered 12-inch disc.
▪ By devising and adopting standards for encoding machine-readable information, data exchange can take place independently of processing considerations.
▪ This structure is known as a binary tree, and neatly encodes the mid-point information needed for searching.
message
▪ The initial emphasis was on speakers and their ability to encode messages sufficiently clearly to enable listeners to identify the target object.
▪ They represent systems of choices a speaker faces when encoding his message.
protein
▪ The genes encoding the protein are packaged such that the encoded protein is displayed on the outside of the package.
▪ Therefore, the genes encoding these proteins were chosen for insertion into the triple gene transfer vector.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A month later Salmon confidently handed the code clerk a number of messages encoded in an entirely new system.
▪ A type of scanner which can encode characters on a page and store them electronically.
▪ In a system that encodes information in terms of patterns of activity information processing could be going on without a net increase in metabolism.
▪ Instead, they are culturally encoded.
▪ It encodes the overthrow of the Goddess-centered world.
▪ Once deposited, checks must be electronically encoded with the dollar amount.
▪ Tense, therefore, can be deictic in as much as it can be used to encode specific temporal relations with respect to the encoder.
▪ The genes encoding the protein are packaged such that the encoded protein is displayed on the outside of the package.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
encode

1917, from en- (1) "make, put in" + code (n.). Computing sense is from 1955, usually shortened colloquially or for clarity to code. Related: Encoded; encoding.

Wiktionary
encode

vb. 1 To convert plain text into code. 2 (context communication English) To convert source information into another form. 3 Constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix, as to transcript DNA material.

WordNet
encode

v. convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code] [ant: decode]

Wikipedia
ENCODE

The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) is a public research project launched by the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in September 2003. Intended as a follow-up to the Human Genome Project (Genomic Research), the ENCODE project aims to identify all functional elements in the human genome.

The project involves a worldwide consortium of research groups, and data generated from this project can be accessed through public databases. It is currently ending its third phase, and will be renewed for its fourth phase of the project.

Usage examples of "encode".

Somewhere in between the point where the sensory cells in our eyes are activated, and the point where neurons in the speech areas of the brain select which words to say, there must have been a conversion from intensity-based encoding to position-based encoding.

Yet no geneticist has ever found one scrap of proof that psychology and mind patterns are encoded biochemically into the DNA.

Are all our past experiences, as some schools of psychoanalysis maintain, encoded in some way within our brains, so that, if only we could find the key to accessing them, every detail of our past would become as transparent to us as is the present moment of our consciousness?

But the digits resulting from an encoding were then enciphered with the disk just as if they were plaintext letters.

The Vietnamese found the stolen TransRim data encoded on a minidisc within moments of rendering the American unconscious.

Immediately, her machine began to sift through the data encoded on his hard drive, searching for the keys to the Pangen mainframe.

After pruning his programs and memories and then encoding them as an intense tachyon pulse, he set loose the zero-point energies of the spacetime within his great brain and exploded himself into the pieces of flotsam that Danlo had discovered orbiting the Star of Ede.

If the Handler was to he believed, the local computing nodes in each star system were only millimeters wide, and they communicated with the others, light years away, with pulses so weak, so tightly aimed, so unpredictable in wavelength, and so ingeniously encoded that a thousand interstellar civilizations had come and gone without noticing their presence.

It would take at least five minutes for the three tabs to encode and append.

Hand trembling over the buttons, once and twice hesitating, he called System Control, encoded an order with a furious set of taps, first to warn the techs and then to order them to bring the local system back up.

Even with the Thurien method of bypassing the sensory channels, the input to the machine is still encoded from representations in the same brain areas that those channels terminate in.

But it is now clear that all life on Earth, every single living thing, has its genetic information encoded in its nucleic acids and employs fundamentally the same codebook to implement the hereditary instructions.

But our own human memories are not embedded in a computer, they are encoded in the brain, in the ten thousand million nerve cells that comprise the human cerebrum - and the ten million million connections and pathways between those cells.

Researchers are generating gigantic databases containing the details of when and in which tissues of the body various genes are turned on, the shapes of the proteins the genes encode, how the proteins interact with one another and the role those interactions play in disease.

Their goal is to enable an investigator not only to float seamlessly between the enormous databases of DNA sequences and those of the three-dimensional protein structures encoded by that DNA.