From genes to genomes: Universal scale-invariant properties of microbial chromosome organisation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 332, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 617-633

  Audit, Benjamin ^a   Ouzounis, Christos A ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circular statistics; Gene position and orientation; Long range correlations; Nucleoid structure; Transcriptional context

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA HELIX; EUBACTERIUM; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0043238093     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(03)00811-8     Document Type: Article

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