Figure 2.

Comparisons of gene names. (a) Schematic of 'skewed' gene names inter-species comparison. Horizontal axis, Web search results for gene name using Yahoo! search engine. Vertical axis, search results using gene name as PubMed query. Overlapping ovals, predicted name distribution for S. cerevisiae (green), E. coli (blue) and D. melanogaster (red) based on naming systems employed in these species. (b) 'Skewed' gene names inter-species comparison. Actual name distribution for S. cerevisiae (green), E. coli (blue) and D. melanogaster (red). H. influenzae is not shown; the strict, identifier-style names in this species generated virtually no Web hits, so these names appeared entirely along the base of the horizontal axis and were omitted.