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Community-wide analysis of microbial genome sequence signatures

Gregory J Dick1,3 email, Anders F Andersson1,4,5 email, Brett J Baker1 email, Sheri L Simmons1 email, Brian C Thomas1 email, A Pepper Yelton1 email and Jillian F Banfield1,2 email

Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, 307 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Hilgard Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Current address: Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, 1100 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA

Current address: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Department of Limnology, Uppsala University, Norbyv. 18 D, SE-75236, Uppsala, Sweden

Current address: Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Nobels väg 18 SE-17182 Solna, Sweden

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R85doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-8-r85

Published: 21 August 2009

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Ecology, Genome studies


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Automated clustering of tetra-ESOM data using fixed point kernel densities.

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Evaluation of binning accuracy based on deeply sampled metagenomes for which contigs are assigned to genomes with a high degree of confidence.

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Binning accuracy calculated for genomes that were sampled to varying extents of completeness (10 to 100%).

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Heat map of average genome-wide frequency of each tetranucleotide for each genome, including bacteria, archaea, viruses, and a putative plasmid.

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Comparison of tetra-ESOMs of assembled genomes based on (a) amino acid composition, (b) codon composition, and (c) tetranucleotide frequency

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The observed difference in frequency of each tetranucleotide between pairs of genomes correlates with the difference predicted based on codon composition.

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Tetra-ESOM of deeply sampled genomes for which coding and noncoding regions were separated.

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Percentage of sequence coding for genes in comparison with the genome-wide coding percentage for incorrectly binned fragments.

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Tetra-ESOM of Leptospirillum group II genes coding for highly expressed proteins or proteins enriched in the extracellular fraction analyzed as separate fractions from the rest of the genome.

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Processes and factors influencing genome signature.

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