Figure 3

Difference of MFE histogram. Human chromosome 1 was scanned with a sliding window of 200 bps twice: first in its native from and then in its reversed form. The MFE gap between each two corresponding windows (i.e. the native window and its reversed) was recorded and is shown with a histogram. The average gap (native MFE – reversed MFE) is -1.06 (dotted line), 34.5% of the volume is confined within 1 Kcal/mol (dashed line) and the standard deviation is 2.45 (solid line). The line is smoothed for visibility.