Did the early full genome sequencing of yeast boost gene function discovery?

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Table 3 The real number of scientific articles necessary to generate a literature body of given FPE intervals about a S. cerevisiae gene

Tindex	Min	Max	Median	Mean	SD
T1	1	49	4	5.52	5.22
T5	5	104	20	24.94	16.35
T10	10	317	42	47.72	27.92
T15	16	589	62	70.20	39.69
T20	22	897	82	92.48	53.33
T25	28	1168	102.5	114.50	69.50
T30	34	1514	122	134.51	87.02
T35	39	1165	146	154.03	77.88
T40	44	1387	167	176.80	91.91
T45	50	1594	186.5	196.53	104.07
T50	56	1821	199	216.56	119.63
T75	85	834	304	318.19	130.12
T100	116	1254	391	432.92	197.87
T500	1214	2941	2200	2164.86	619.38

The letter “T” in abbreviations “T0, T1, etc.” stands for “threshold” applied to FPE values (compare with Table 2). We list the minimal (Min), maximal (Max), median and mean (together with the respective standard deviation—SD) numbers of articles associated with genes in the year when they crossed certain literature thresholds. As a trend, the number of actual articles is 2–5 times larger than the FPE value itself

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