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Yeast rises again

What's in a genome? The short answer is that you can't really say in detail for any one species until you have the genome sequences of a variety of other species — some closely related, others less so — to compare it with.

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Salzberg, S. Yeast rises again. Nature 423, 233–234 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423233a

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