Figure 6.

Cumulative distribution of shustrings in Staphylococcus aureus. Cumulative distribution of unique substrings as a function of genome position in S. aureus MSSA476 when compared to strains MRSA252, MW2, Mu50, and N315 (c. f. Table 1). The steep jumps in the plot correspond to the two regions SCC₄₇₆ (close to the origin) and ΦSa4 indicated in grey. These are known to be the sole two unique regions in the genome of MSSA476 [7]. Only local shortest unique substrings of length ≤ 10 were included in the analysis.