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. 2006 Sep 23;4:18. doi: 10.1186/1477-5956-4-18

Table 5.

Protein lengths and amino acid frequencies (one letter code) for nine in the nine databases, length – average protein length in database, reference – database reference; fi – amino acid frequencies

Organ izm length fF fS fT fN fK fY fE fV fQ fM
Arabidopsis t. 422.40 4.27 9.01 5.11 4.41 6.36 2.86 6.74 6.69 3.52 2.44
Drosophila m. 506.20 3.48 8.33 5.68 4.80 5.70 2.91 6.41 5.88 5.21 2.33
Escherichia coli 300.30 3.86 6.25 5.67 4.26 4.59 2.96 5.65 6.91 4.40 2.67
Homo sapiens 360.40 3.61 8.61 5.55 3.55 5.54 2.86 6.81 6.02 4.80 2.12
Mus musculus 378.30 3.74 8.58 5.55 3.59 5.71 2.88 6.75 6.11 4.74 2.22
Rattus norvegicus 484.40 3.81 8.33 5.52 3.59 5.62 2.74 6.77 6.32 4.64 2.28
Saccharomyces c. 447.00 4.47 9.02 5.93 6.18 7.26 3.41 6.43 5.58 3.94 2.10
Rhodopirellula b. 314.70 3.70 7.37 5.85 3.37 3.44 2.09 6.02 7.05 4.04 2.43
SwissProt DB 367.90 4.03 6.89 5.47 4.22 5.93 3.09 6.59 6.70 3.93 2.38

Mean 397.96 3.89 8.04 5.59 4.22 5.57 2.87 6.46 6.36 4.36 2.33
SD 71.90 0.32 0.98 0.24 0.88 1.07 0.35 0.39 0.50 0.54 0.18
Min 300.30 3.48 6.25 5.11 3.37 3.44 2.09 5.65 5.58 3.52 2.10
Max 506.20 4.47 9.02 5.93 6.18 7.26 3.41 6.81 7.05 5.21 2.67

reference fC fL fA fW fP fH fD fR fI fG

Arabidopsis t. [34] 1.80 9.52 6.36 1.26 4.80 2.28 5.43 5.39 5.34 6.41
Drosophila m. [34] 1.95 9.02 7.36 1.00 5.46 2.64 5.18 5.53 4.96 6.17
Escherichia coli [34] 1.17 10.23 9.27 1.50 4.32 2.22 5.21 5.54 5.94 7.38
Homo sapiens [34] 2.24 9.78 6.98 1.35 6.22 2.51 4.73 5.64 4.28 6.80
Mus musculus [34] 2.29 9.92 6.86 1.29 6.03 2.57 4.76 5.51 4.38 6.54
Rattus norvegicus [34] 2.29 10.07 6.88 1.25 5.97 2.58 4.77 5.59 4.51 6.49
Saccharomyces c. [34] 1.30 9.52 5.51 1.04 4.39 2.18 5.76 4.41 6.58 5.00
Rhodopirellula b. [37] 1.27 9.31 9.25 1.54 5.33 2.31 6.23 6.96 4.95 7.48
SwissProt [27] 1.57 9.63 7.80 1.17 4.86 2.27 5.30 5.29 5.92 6.94

Mean 1.76 9.67 7.36 1.27 5.26 2.40 5.26 5.54 5.21 6.58
SD 0.45 0.38 1.25 0.18 0.71 0.18 0.50 0.65 0.80 0.74
Min 1.17 9.02 5.51 1.00 4.32 2.18 4.73 4.41 4.28 5.00
Max 2.29 10.23 9.27 1.54 6.22 2.64 6.23 6.96 6.58 7.48