SynteBase/SynteView: a tool to visualize gene order conservation in prokaryotic genomes

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 2 Obtaining information on synteny blocks

species 1	species 2			synteny blocks
B. subtilis^a Taxonomy	Species name	Taxonomy	Proteome size	average size	longest size
Bacillaceae	Oceanobacillus iheyensis	Bacillaceae	3500	3.6	23
Firmicutes	Shewanella oneidensis	Proteobacteria	4471	2.4	8
Firmicutes	Synechocysti s specie s	Cyanobacteria	3167	2.8	8
Firmicutes	Mycobacteriu m tuberculosi s	Actinobacteria	4187	2.5	11
Bacteria	Methanosarcin a acetivoran s	Archaea	4540	2.3	7

The average size (number of genes) of synteny blocks is dependent on the taxonomic distance separating a pair of genomes that have been compared at the level of their genetic context.
^a The size of the B. subtilis proteome is 4112.

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