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From: Decoding the nucleoid organisation of Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli through gene expression data

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Long-range averaged autocorrelations in B. subtilis. To identify the regularities which are common to most of the genome, regardless of the genes localisation, the autocorrelation vectors of all the genes were summed (blue curve). This global signal shows the averaged autocorrelation regularities as a function of inter-gene distance. The green curve shows the averaged autocorrelation when the genes positions on the genome were randomly assigned. The red curve represents the resultant of four oscillations of periods 600 ± 55, 240 ± 21, 113 ± 21 and 60 ± 6 genes, which were estimated from the averaged autocorrelation deconvolution. The horizontal scale represents the distance between two genes (the difference of their ranks on the chromosome). The green, blue and red curves have the same vertical scale. The red curve was shifted for readability. Whereas the green signal shows no regularity, long-range correlations can be seen in the blue signal (maxima at ca. 200, 650, 850, 1300, 1500 and 2050 inter gene distance and minima at ca. 550, 900 and 1750–1950).

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