From Genetics this week a review discusses Why are there still 1000 Uncharacterized Yeast genes? Poor Yeast - so many more genes have no known function, while S. pombe has nearly 100% coverage in functional annotation. I'll also point out that the 1000 genes refers to protein-coding genes, not ncRNA genes which may mean that there is alot more that is unknown.
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