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Gene density in E. coli k12

Value	0.94 genes/kb
Organism	Bacteria Escherichia coli
Reference	Rogozin IB, Makarova KS, Natale DA, Spiridonov AN, Tatusov RL, Wolf YI, Yin J, Koonin EV. Congruent evolution of different classes of non-coding DNA in prokaryotic genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Oct 1 30(19):4264-71. p.4266 table 1 Table - link PubMed ID12364605
Primary Source	COG - Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (NCBI) link
Method	Researchers analyzed the intergenic distances in 50 completely sequenced bacterial and archaeal genomes using the COG database (primary source) to limit the study to pairs of robustly predicted genes.
Entered by	Uri M
ID	105751