The web’s most popular genes
Recently, your Mr. Gene was crouching in front of his good old computer when, all of a sudden, it crossed his mind to google the word, well, “gene”.
Having performed this, Mr. Gene proudly presents the ultimate Gene Ranking, powered by Google:
1) Placed 1st is Gene, Elsevier’s International Journal of Functional and Evolutionary Genomics. If you wish to chat with Gene’s Editor-in-Chief, Dr Batzer, please address to the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And if you wish to publish your next paper in Gene you should have top-quality results. Gene has an impact factor of 2.871.
2) On the 2nd position the Wikipedia headword “gene” is ranked (how on earth did Elsevier’s Gene manage to be ranked higher than Wikipedia’s???). – Anyway, the Wikipedia “gene” entry contains plethora of genetic material – more than 6,000 words on history, structure and concept of, well, genes (the equivalent of nearly 20 book pages!)
3) The genetic bronze medal goes to the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the well-known resource for molecular biology information established in 1988. Is anybody unaware of this exhaustible gateway to literature and molecular databases as well as tools and useful software? I don’t think so.
However, there are many more interesting or even bizarre “gene” websites at Google’s first 20 positionings, such as…
… the Movie Maze entry for actor Gene Hackman (rank 6!!!),
… the shareware genealogy database “Gene 4.3.4” for Macintosh computers (rank 9),
… and, surprisingly far from the podium, Genentech’s famous www.gene.com domain (rank 10).
Wondering where your Mr. Gene finishes?
Mr. Gene ranks 40th, that is not half bad considering the fact that the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee is ranked 56th; Encyclopaedia Britannica’s “gene” entry finishes as 70th – and Gene Kelly’s 4:36 minute YouTube appearance with I’m singing in the rain places at a poor 135th rank.
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