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ReviewGenetics2011

Yeast: an experimental organism for 21st Century biology.

David Botstein, Gerald R Fink

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In one paragraph

Review in Genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 246 papers.

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246citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

246 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Lipidomic Insight Across 48Microorganisms · 2026
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  7. Yeast as a Model for Human Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  9. Systems biology of yeast metabolism.FEMS yeast research · 2026
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  11. Microbial cell (Graz, Austria) · 2026
    Article
  12. The Power of Yeast.Yeast (Chichester, England) · 2025
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  14. Genetic properties of mercury‑tolerant yeast, Pichia kudriavzevii 1P4.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2025
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  15. Special Issue: "Yeast as a Model System to Study Human Diseases".International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Yeast adapts to diverse ecological niches driven by genomics and metabolic reprogramming.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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186 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David BotsteinLewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. botstein@genomics.princeton.edu
Gerald R Fink

Funding

Spatial Patterning During DevelopmentP50GM071508 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI POWELL, SUSAN M · 2004 to 2013
$30.6M
REGULATION OF HISTIDINE BIOSYNTHESIS IN YEASTR01GM035010 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI FINK, GERALD R · 1985 to 2016
$9.9M
Genetics of Functional Interactions in YeastR01GM046406 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BOTSTEIN, DAVID · 2001 to 2015
$9.5M
The Role of Genetic Variation in the Fungal/Host InteractionR01GM040266 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI FINK, GERALD R · 1988 to 2012
$8.6M
GENETICS OF FUNCTIONAL INTERACTIONS IN YEASTR37GM046406 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BOTSTEIN, DAVID · 1991 to 2000
$683k
REGULATION OF HISTIDINE BIOSYNTHESIS IN YEASTR37GM035010 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI FINK, GERALD R · 1986 to 1995
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this essay, we revisit the status of yeast as a model system for biology. We first summarize important contributions of yeast to eukaryotic biology that we anticipated in 1988 in our first article on the subject. We then describe transformative developments that we did not anticipate, most of which followed the publication of the complete genomic sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 1996. In the intervening 23 years it appears to us that yeast has graduated from a position as the premier model for eukaryotic cell biology to become the pioneer organism that has facilitated the establishment of the entirely new fields of study called "functional genomics" and "systems biology." These new fields look beyond the functions of individual genes and proteins, focusing on how these interact and work together to determine the properties of living cells and organisms.

Indexed as

AnimalsDiseaseEvolution, MolecularGene Regulatory NetworksGenetic VariationHumansProtein Interaction MapsSaccharomyces cerevisiae

Identifiers

PMID22084421
PMCPMC3213361

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