title: Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes.
abstract: Many people expected the question 'How many genes in the human genome?' to be resolved with the publication of the genome sequence in 2001, but estimates continue to fluctuate.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pertea
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Salzberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D005796:Genes / Q000235:genetics*; D015894:Genome, Human / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D027843:Vitis