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Human Genome News Archive Edition

Human Genome News, January 1998; 9:(1-2)

Completed Genomes

Organism

  Genome
 Size (Mb)

Estimated
Genes

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

12.1

6034

Escherichia coli

4.6

4288

Bacillus subtilus

4.2

~4000

Synechocystis sp.

3.6

3168

*Archaeoglobus fulgidus

2.2

2471

*Pyrobaculum aerophilum

2.2

N.A.

Haemophilus influenzae

1.8

1740

*Methanobacterium
   thermoautotrophicum

1.8

1855

Helicobacter pylori

1.7

1590

*Methanococcus jannaschii

1.7

1692

*Aquifex aolicus

1.5

1508

Borrelia burgdorferi

1.3

863

Treponema pallidum

1.1

1234

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

0.8

677

*Mycoplasma genitalium

0.6

470

*Supported by DOE. Also see genome sequencing projects on Web  (http://www.tigr.org/tdb/mdb/mdb.html).


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