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Fig. 1 | Genome Biology

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From: Finding smORFs: getting closer

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The number of small open reading frames (smORFs) in eukaryotic genomes (shown in log scale) greatly exceeds that of annotated protein-coding genes, and reaches 265,000 in yeast [4], 556,000 in the fruit fly Drosophila [2], and 40,700,000 in mouse [3]. Note that the current number of corroborated functional smORFs is but a small fraction of these (see text and [1] for details). The number of annotated protein-coding genes was obtained from the Saccharomyces Genome Database (yeast; http://www.yeastgenome.org/), FlyBase (fruit fly; http://flybase.org/), and Ensembl (mouse; http://www.ensembl.org/index.html) (accessed 12 August 2015)

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