Fig 4. The effect of heterologous gene mRNA levels and elongation rates.

(a) Block diagram of the current test. (b) Normalized z_a as a function of ${\tilde{L}}_h$, α = 0.8 and α = 3.2 for A = 1/2, T = 16, and $\bar{z}=30\%$. “ORG” denotes the original (non-mutated) GFP. (c) Legend of the sub-figures. The up-to-down order corresponds to the performance ranking, per ${\tilde{L}}_h$ value, in sub-figures (b), (d), and (e), i.e. HIGH results in the largest measurement values, followed by ORG, etc. (d) Normalized ${\bar{R}}_a$ (upper figure) and normalized ${\bar{\rho }}_a$ (lower figure) as a function of ${\tilde{L}}_h$, α = 0.8 and α = 3.2 for A = 1/2, T = 16, and $\bar{z}=30\%$. (e) Normalized ${\hat{R}}_a$ (upper figure) and normalized ${\hat{\rho }}_a$ (lower figure) as a function of ${\tilde{L}}_h$, α = 0.8 and α = 3.2 for A = 1/2, T = 16, and $\bar{z}=30\%$.