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Table 1 Some key characteristics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288C (downloaded in August of 2023 from yeastmine.yeastgenome.org. The yeast genome has been revised multiple times since 1996, and a recent study using long-read, single molecule sequence provided a complete, telomere-to-telomere genome sequence [14]

From: From beer to breadboards: yeast as a force for biological innovation

Genomic feature

Count

Total ORFs

6605

Verified ORFs

5195

Uncharacterized ORFs

722

Dubious ORFs

688

Human genes complementing or complemented by yeast genes

599

Retrotransposon

50

Autonomously replicating sequences (ARSs)

352

Human genes with ortholog in yeast

2696 [15]