Table 1.

Relative minimal distances of empirical matrices from two DNA strands in bacterial genomes to respective Pareto fronts of matrices maximizing hydropathy and minimizing polarity (MaxMin); minimizing hydropathy and maximizing polarity (MinMax); maximizing (Max) and minimizing (Min) the both costs.

Genome	Leading strand				Lagging strand
	Max	MaxMin	MinMax	Min	Max	MaxMin	MinMax	Min
Bacillus species	0.662	0.090	0.093	0.155	0.700	0.078	0.118	0.104
Borrelia burgdorferi	0.632	0.052	0.088	0.229	0.674	0.087	0.058	0.181
Chlamydia muridarum	0.650	0.086	0.136	0.128	0.648	0.076	0.167	0.109
Chlamydia trachomatis	0.667	0.077	0.122	0.135	0.656	0.073	0.166	0.105
Escherichia coli	0.642	0.062	0.187	0.110	0.396	0.045	0.187	0.371
Neisseria species	0.639	0.091	0.179	0.091	0.649	0.045	0.178	0.128
Rickettsia species	0.674	0.075	0.093	0.157	0.673	0.080	0.086	0.161
Staphylococcus aureus	0.687	0.081	0.086	0.146	0.699	0.080	0.082	0.140
Streptococcus pyogenes	0.693	0.075	0.112	0.120	0.699	0.093	0.101	0.106

The distances were calculated in the final 2000th step of simulations.