Table 1 List of genomic properties that display power-law behavior and the associated exponent (b) for the best-fitting power-law function
| Â | Exponent b | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Organism | 6-10-mers | Protein families | Protein super-families | Protein folds | Pseudomotifs | Pseudogene families | Functions per protein fold | Interactions per protein fold | Transcripts per protein family |
Mycoplasma genitalium | 3.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Mycoplasma pneumoniae | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.8 | - | - | - | - | - |
Rickettsia prowazekii | 3.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Chlamydia trachomatis | 3.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Treponema pallidum | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Chlamydia pneumoniae | 3.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Aquifex aeolicus | 3.8 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Helicobacter pylori | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Haemophilus influenzae | 3.4 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | - | - | - | - | - |
Methanococcus jannaschii | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Methanococcus thermoautotrophicum | 3.8 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Pyrococcus horikoshii | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 2.0 | - | - | - | - | - |
Archaeoglobus fulgidus | 3.8 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Synechocystis sp. | 3.4 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.7 | - | - | - | - | - |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 3.4 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | - | - | - | - | - |
Bacillus subtilis | 3.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | - | - | - | - | - |
Escherichia coli | 3.2 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | - | - | - | - | - |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 3.2 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
Caenorhabditis elegans | 3.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.8 | - | - | Â |
Drosophila melanogaster | 3.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 | - | - | - | Â |
Human chromosomes 21 and 22 | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 1.9 | - | - | Â |