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From: About the dark corners in the gene function space of Escherichia coli remaining without illumination by scientific literature

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The total number of genes that has been mentioned in relation to the total number publications with E. coli K-12 MG1655 gene names from year 1939 to year 2021. The number of publications (left y-axis) for each year is represented by the red line, whereas the total number of genes mentioned (right y-axis) is shown by the blue line. The blue dashed vertical lines delimit the expansion period for the total number of genes from year 1965 to 2009 until it apparently plateaued after year 2019. The red dashed vertical lines at year 1970 and year 2007 emphasize the two publication periods from year 1970 to year 2007 and year 2007 to year 2021. The ratio of the number of publications in each year to the total number of new genes identified in each year is shown in the inset

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