Table 2. COGS Functional Groups.
| Information storage and processing | ||||
| Group | Bcell | Percent | Description | |
| J | 191 | 4.5 | Translation, Ribosomal Structure and Biogenesis | |
| K | 280 | 6.6 | Transcription | |
| L | 159 | 3.7 | DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair | |
| 4 | 3 | 0.1 | Chromatin structure and dynamics | |
| Cellular processes | ||||
| D | 136 | 3.2 | Cell Division and Chromosome Partitioning | |
| V | 129 | 3.0 | Defense mechanisms | |
| T | 217 | 5.1 | Signal Transduction Mechanisms | |
| M | 282 | 6.6 | Cell Envelope Biogenesis, Outer Membrane | |
| N | 110 | 2.6 | Cell Motility and Secretion | |
| Z | 0 | 0 | Cytoskeleton | |
| U | 57 | 1.3 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion | |
| O | 220 | 5.1 | Posttranslational Modification, Protein Turnover, Chaperones | |
| Metabolism | ||||
| C | 278 | 6.5 | Energy production and Conversion | |
| G | 373 | 8.7 | Carbohydrate Transport and Metabolism | |
| E | 407 | 9.5 | Amino Acid Transport and Metabolism | |
| F | 122 | 2.8 | Nucleotide Transport and Metabolism | |
| H | 242 | 5.7 | Coenzyme Metabolism | |
| I | 86 | 2.0 | Lipid Metabolism | |
| P | 290 | 6.8 | Inorganic Ion Transport and Metabolism | |
| Q | 151 | 3.5 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism | |
| Poorly characterized | ||||
| R | 525 | 12.3 | General Function Prediction Only | |
| S | 291 | 6.8 | Function Unknown | |
| Gene Count | 4273 | |||
Data for B. cellulosilyticus obtained from http://genome.ornl.gov/microbial/bcel/21jul10/fun.html