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. 1997 May 29;387(6632 Suppl):7-65.
doi: 10.1038/42755.

Overview of the yeast genome

H W Mewes  1 , K Albermann, M Bähr, D Frishman, A Gleissner, J Hani, K Heumann, K Kleine, A Maierl, S G Oliver, F Pfeiffer, A Zollner
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Overview of the yeast genome

H W Mewes et al. Nature. .

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  • Nature 1997 Jun 12;387(6634):737

Abstract

The collaboration of more than 600 scientists from over 100 laboratories to sequence the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome was the largest decentralised experiment in modern molecular biology and resulted in a unique data resource representing the first complete set of genes from a eukaryotic organism. 12 million bases were sequenced in a truly international effort involving European, US, Canadian and Japanese laboratories. While the yeast genome represents only a small fraction of the information in today's public sequence databases, the complete, ordered and non-redundant sequence provides an invaluable resource for the detailed analysis of cellular gene function and genome architecture. In terms of throughput, completeness and information content, yeast has always been the lead eukaryotic organism in genomics; it is still the largest genome to be completely sequenced.

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