title: How many genes in a genome?
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.
authors.affiliation: 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. oliver@helix.nih.gov
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.forename: Benoit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leblanc
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D017344:Genes, Insect / Q000235:genetics*; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans