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. 2008 Feb 6;3(2):e1542. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001542

Figure 1. The relationship between the number of bacteria and the percent of observed proteins from predicted orthologs.

Figure 1

The number of predicted orthologs represents the sum of orthologs identified in-silico from any combination of bacteria within the set. As the number of organisms increased from 5 to 17, proteomes among the individual bacteria converged to a set of conserved proteins, or core proteome.