Genometrics as an essential tool for the assembly of whole genome sequences: the example of the chromosome of Bifidobacterium longum NCC2705

Table 1 Coorientation indexes of different genome subsets in some high G+C Gram-positive bacteria

	ORFs	rRNA genes	tRNA genes
B. longum NCC2705 initial sequence	0.48	0.25	0.47
B. longum NCC2705 configuration II	0.66	1	0.61
M. tuberculosis CDC1551	0.59	1	0.62
S. coelicolor A3(2)	0.55	1	0.57

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