Information on Genomic Sequences Used in this Study
| Species name | Accession no. | Genome length (nucleotides) | No. of annotated genes | GC (%) |
| A. fulgidus | AE000782 | 2,178,400 | 2407 | 48.6 |
| B. subtilis | AL009126 | 4,214,814 | 4100 | 43.5 |
| E. coli | U00096 | 4,639,221 | 4290 | 50.8 |
| H. influenzae | L42023 | 1,830,419 | 1717 | 38.1 |
| H. pylori | AE000511 | 1,667,877 | 1566 | 38.9 |
| M. genitalium | L43967 | 580,073 | 476 | 31.7 |
| M. jannaschii | L77117 | 1,664,987 | 1680 | 31.4 |
| M. pneumoniae | U00089 | 816,394 | 678 | 40.0 |
| M. thermoautotrophicum | AE000666 | 1,751,377 | 1839 | 49.5 |
| Synechocystis | AB001339 | 3,573,470 | 3169 | 47.7 |