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. 2014 Feb 1;9(3):614–623. doi: 10.4056/sigs.4778605

Table 4. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.

Code    Value    %agea     Description
J    157    4.67     Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis
A    0    0.00     RNA processing and modification
K    190    5.65     Transcription
L    201    5.98     Replication, recombination and repair
B    0    0.00     Chromatin structure and dynamics
D    28    0.83     Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning
Y    0    0.00     Nuclear structure
V    44    1.31     Defense mechanisms
T    92    2.74     Signal transduction mechanisms
M    220    6.55     Cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis
N    43    1.28     Cell motility
Z    0    0.00     Cytoskeleton
W    2    0.06     Extracellular structures
U    95    2.83     Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport
O    120    3.57     Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
C    170    5.06     Energy production and conversion
G    194    5.77     Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
E    247    7.35     Amino acid transport and metabolism
F    89    2.65     Nucleotide transport and metabolism
H    129    3.84     Coenzyme transport and metabolism
I    91    2.71     Lipid transport and metabolism
P    210    6.25     Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Q    64    1.90     Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
R    342    10.18     General function prediction only
S    232    6.90     Function unknown
-    691    20.57     No COG assignment
-    245    7.29     Multiple COG assignment

a) The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome.