<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>Since our last issue, several important genomes have been completely or ‘almost
completely’ sequenced. The debate over the number of human genes has flared up once
more, with one computational and one experimental study into the annotation of the
human genome. The mouse genome project has a clone fingerprint map to aid their
sequencing effort. The SAGE technique has been applied to <italic>Drosophila</italic> and the US
National Science Foundation announced increased spending on plant genome research.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2001 Dec; 2(6):355-358