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The clusters were ranked by the number of genes they contain, normalized by average length and copy number (see Supplementary Fig. 10) and the proportion of clusters with the essential B. subtilis genes was determined for successive groups of 100 clusters. Range indicates the part of the cluster distribution that contains 86 % of the B. subtilis essential genes.
