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Figure 5

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

Figure 5

Long-range averaged autocorrelation in E. coli. 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 two oscillations of periods 557 ± 30 and 100 ± 18 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 and blue curves have the same vertical scale. The red one is on a scale, which is moved down for readability. Whereas the green signal shows no regularity, long-range periodicities can be seen in the blue signal (maxima at ca. 200, 650, 1100, 1400 and 1700 and minima at ca. 850, 1380 and 2180).

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