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How many genes in a genome?

Brian Oliver1 email and Benoit Leblanc2

Laboratory 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

Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boulevard Université, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada

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Genome Biology 2003, 5:204doi:10.1186/gb-2003-5-1-204

Published: 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.


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