Leading-Strand Essential Genes

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Functionality of essential genes drives gene strand-bias in bacterial genomes

Yan Lin, Feng Gao and Chun-Ting Zhang

Department of Physics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

Corresponding author: Zhang, C-T. (ctzhang@tju.edu.cn)

Table 1 Summary information of datasets

Table S1 The data of 3434 essential genes from ten bacterial genomes

Table S2 The data of 16772 nonessential genes from ten bacterial genomes

Table S3   [Database of Leading-Strand Essential Genes] The data of 1818 essential genes with fundamental functions in the leading strand

Table S4 The data of 659 essential genes with fundamental functions in the lagging strand

Figure 1 The observed significances derived from the two sample paired t-Tests

Figure S1 The distributions of essential genes between the leading and lagging strand