Figure 4

Partial sums of the autocorrelations in B. subtilis. To analyse if the discovered regularities depend on gene position, the autocorrelation vectors of groups of 500 genes were summed up (9 coloured curves). The horizontal scale represents the distance between two genes (the difference of their ranks on the chromosome). All the curves were vertically shifted for readability. The signals show the co-expression regularities according to inter-gene distance. Long-range periodicities are shared by all the signals regardless of the gene groups.