Table 5. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.
| Code | Value | %agea | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 195 | 3.33 | Translation |
| A | 0 | 0 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 570 | 9.73 | Transcription |
| L | 186 | 3.18 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | 1 | 0.02 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 31 | 0.53 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | 0 | 0 | Nuclear structure |
| V | 101 | 1.72 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 354 | 6.05 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 247 | 4.22 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 76 | 1.30 | Cell motility |
| Z | 2 | 0.03 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | 1 | 0.02 | Extracellular structures |
| U | 59 | 1.01 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 127 | 2.17 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 189 | 3.23 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 591 | 10.09 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 414 | 7.07 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 96 | 1.64 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 125 | 2.13 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 144 | 2.46 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 365 | 6.23 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 147 | 2.51 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 735 | 12.55 | General function prediction only |
| S | 339 | 5.79 | Function unknown |
| - | 1,551 | 26.49 | Not in COGs |
a The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome