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MinireviewHow many genes in a genome?Brian Oliver1 and Benoit Leblanc2 1Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 50 South Dr. Bethesda, MD 20892-8028, USA 2Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boulevard Université, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2003,
5:204doi:10.1186/gb-2003-5-1-204
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22 December 2003 |
Subject areas: Genome studies, Model organisms, Bioinformatics Abstract
Despite the current good level of annotation, the Drosophila genome still holds surprises. A recent study has added perhaps 2,000 genes to the predicted total, and raises a number of questions about how genome annotation data should be stored and presented. |