4 concepts
Bacterial Chromosomes in the Nucleoid
The nucleoid is an irregularly-shaped region within the cell of a prokaryote that contains all or most of the genetic material.
Supercoiling
DNA supercoiling refers to the over- or under-winding of a DNA strand, and is an expression of the strain on that strand.
Size Variation and ORF Contents in Genomes
An open reading frame (ORF) is the part of a reading frame that varies in size and content in bacterial genomes.
Bioinformatic Analyses and Gene Distributions
Bioinformatics is the study of methods for storing, retrieving and analyzing biological data.