<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><italic>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</italic>, the fission yeast, has long been a crucial model for the study
of the eukaryote cell cycle. We take a look at this important yeast, whose genome has
recently been completed, featuring comments from Valerie Wood, Jürg Bähler, Ramsay
McFarlane, Susan Forsburg, Iain Hagan and Paul Nurse on the implications of having the
complete sequence and future prospects for <italic>pombe</italic> genomics.</p>
[]
Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Apr; 3(2):194-204