global-genomic-arrangemet

The availability of a large number of sequenced bacterial genomes allows researchers not only to derive functional and regulation information about specific organisms but also to study the fundamental properties of the organization of a genome. Here we address an important and challenging question regarding the global arrangement of operons in a bacterial genome: why operons in a bacterial genome are arranged in the way they are. We have previously studied this question and found that operons of more frequently activated pathways tend to be more clustered together in a genome. Specifically, we have developed a simple sequential distance-based pseudo energy function and found that the arrangement of operons in a bacterial genome tend to minimize the clusteredness function (C value) in comparison with artificially-generated alternatives, for a variety of bacterial genomes. Here we extend our previous work, and report a number of new observations: (a) operons of the same pathways tend

GlobalGenomicConstrain1.0
get_options.h
main.c
expression_analysis.c
expression_analysis.h
README
read_array.h
struct.c
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get_options.c
global_genomic.c
struct.h
main.h
read_array.c
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global_genomic.h