Gene neighborhoods

Fig. 6. Reconstruction of gene neighborhood using OperonViz. Each color represents a protein family. Users can navigate the gene neighborhood structure on each chromosome by clicking any square.

Genomic Context Gene Neighborhoods, Gene Clusters, and Operons.60... 

Analysis of Conserved Gene Strings (Operons). An approach that is conceptually similar to the analysis of gene fusions, but is more general, if less definitive, involves systematic analysis of gene neighborhoods in genomes (Overbeek et al.,... 

Of course, many prokaryotes contain more than one plasmid. Recombination between the plasmid containing the degradative gene and a plasmid of the same neighborhood can pass the degradative gene to a new host. 

A density-based method clusters gene expression data based on the notion of density. It grows clusters either according to the density of neighborhood clusters or according to some estimated density functions.55... 

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