BMC Genomics

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Persistence drives gene clustering in bacterial genomes

Gang Fang1, Eduardo PC Rocha1,2 and Antoine Danchin1*

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1 Génétique des Génomes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

2 Atelier de Bioinformatique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 12, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France

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BMC Genomics 2008, 9:4 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-4

Published: 7 January 2008

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Bacterial genomes used in this study, persistent genes and operons' distributions in bacterial chromosomes.

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Gene clustering in bacterial chromosomes

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Distribution of groups of genes according to their persistence index

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Length of batches of contiguous genes indels

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a: Simulation without considering stabilization forces. b: Simulation with stabilization forces

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MAGP and its composition

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Venn diagram showing the intersections between the datasets of protein interactions and MAGP

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Functional annotation of the genes involved in MAGP

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