Computing prokaryotic gene ubiquity: Rescuing the core from extinction

Table 2.

Number of genes strictly shared by prokaryotes, by simple match and by reciprocal best match (RBM), at various BLASTP cutoff expectation values



147 Prokaryotes

130 Bacteria RBM

17 Archaea RBM
E-value
Simple match
RBM
1.0e-3 101.5, sd = 46.9 [28-267] 18.0, sd = 2.8 [12-26] 63.5 153.6
1.0e-4 93.6, sd = 45.6 [26-256] 16.1, sd = 2.8 [11-24] 62.6 150.1
1.0e-5 87.2, sd = 44.6 [25-248] 14.8, sd = 2.6 [10-23] 61.5 144.6
1.0e-7 78.1, sd = 42.5 [20-233] 12.1, sd = 1.9 [7-17] 59.5 133.6
1.0e-10 65.8, sd = 37.0 [15-204] 10.0, sd = 1.8 [5-14] 55.3 118.6
1.0e-15 35.2, sd = 17.1 [9-147] 7.4, sd = 1.4 [4-11] 46.6 99.9
1.0e-20 12.1, sd = 3.4 [5-26] 5.5, sd = 1.1 [3-8] 38.8 83.5
1.0e-30 4.7, sd = 1.5 [2-11] 2.2, sd = 0.9 [0-4] 24.5 58.8
1.0e-50 1.5, sd = 0.9 [0-5] 9.9, sd = 0.7 [0-2] 12.6 33.5
1.0e-100
0.0
0.0
5.9
10.5
  • Reported are means, standard deviations (sd), and ranges of estimates (in square brackets), from the perspective of different query genomes. See Table 1 for an explanation of why there is variance in such estimates.

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