Analysis and comparison of the pan-genomic properties of sixteen well-characterized bacterial genera.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increasing availability of whole genome sequences allows the gene or protein content of different organisms to be compared, leading to burgeoning interest in the relatively new subfield of pan-genomics. However, while several studies have analyzed protein content relationships in specific groups of bacteria, there has yet to be a study that provides a general characterization of protein content relationships in a broad range of bacteria.

Results

A variation on reciprocal BLAST hits was used to infer relationships among proteins in several groups of bacteria, and data regarding protein conservation and uniqueness in different bacterial genera are reported in terms of "core proteomes", "unique proteomes", and "singlets". We also analyzed the relationship between

SUBMITTER: Trost B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3020658 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature