Table 4. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.
| Code | Value | %agea | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 158 | 5.6 | Translation |
| A | 0 | 0 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 159 | 5.7 | Transcription |
| L | 104 | 3.7 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | 3 | 0.1 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 24 | 0.9 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | 0 | 0 | Nuclear structure |
| V | 22 | 0.8 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 74 | 2.6 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 133 | 4.7 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 40 | 1.4 | Cell motility |
| Z | 0 | 0 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | 0 | 0 | Extracellular structures |
| U | 38 | 1.4 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 118 | 4.2 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 196 | 7.0 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 165 | 5.9 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 334 | 11.9 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 73 | 2.6 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 157 | 5.6 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 154 | 5.5 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 112 | 4.0 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 123 | 4.4 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 379 | 13.5 | General function prediction only |
| S | 238 | 8.5 | Function unknown |
| - | 714 | 22.06 | Not in COGs |
a) The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome.