A team of researchers at IBMs Watson Research Centre has published a mathematical analysis of the human genome, which suggests that so called "Junk DNA", the over 90 percent of not directly expressed material in our genome, may have important functions. The structural patterns, identified in these vast regions of the genome, seem to correspond as well with those areas known to be expressed in so called genes.</p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4940654.stm">BBC: Salvage prospect for 'junk' DNA</a>