Table 1. Summary of the genomic islands (GIs) identified to be absent in tested isolates when compared with GIs in the K96243.

GI	Coordinates of absent region		Size	No.	%GC
K96243	start CDS	stop CDS	(kb)	CDSs
GI 2	BPSL0140	BPSL0176	27.3	37	65.7
GI 3	BPSL0549A	BPSL0588	46.6	43	56.7
GI 4	BPSL0745	BPSL0770	36.5	26	56.4
GI 5	BPSL0939	BPSL0953	20.5	15	57.5
GI 6	BPSL1137	BPSL1157	14.6	22	58.9
GI 8.1*	BPSL1638	BPSL1656	15.7	17	61.6
GI 8.2*	BPSL1693	BPSL1708A	21.8	16	59.0
GI 10	BPSL3113	BPSL3118	7.1	6	54.6
GI 11	BPSL3257	BPSL3269	12.7	13	55.8
GI 12	BPSL3342	BPSL3349	9.5	8	56.8
GI 16b**	BPSS0068	BPSS0080	16.7	13	59.4
GI 13	BPSS0378	BPSS0391A	18.4	18	59.0
GI 15	BPSS1047	BPSS1089	35.1	50	65.3
GI 16	BPSS2046	BPSS2076	50.4	34	60.8
GI 16c***	BPSS2148	BPSS2154	8.3	8	69.5

CDS = protein coding sequence.

^*Absent region identified in GI8 of K96243 to contain 2 sub-GIs.

^**A new GI discovered in B. pseudomallei genome (Tuanyok et al., 2008).

^***A new GI detected by DNA microarray in this study.