Figure 2

Content variations: Insertion, deletion and trunction. In this prototype visual encoding, each horizontal line represents a portion of a neighborhood around orthologs, in 3 bacterial strains. Orthologs have the same color and label. The insertion illustration shows a yellow gene in strain 2 whose ortholog is not present in strains 1 and 3. The deletion illustration has gene 'B' missing from strain 2, while it is present in strains 1 and 3. The truncation illustration shows gene B with smaller length in pixels in strain 2, corresponding to a smaller length in nucleotides compared to its orthologs in strains 1 and 3.