Table 1.

List of the 31 strains collected from the database of essential genes (DEG) used for training data and 5 strains collected from the literature used for validation.

No	Organism	KEGG abbreviation	EG number	Condition	Reference
Training datasets
1	Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978	acb	458	Rich medium	35
2	Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1	aci	499	Rich medium	36
3	Agrobacterium fabrum str. C58	atu	361	Rich medium	37
4	Bacillus subtilis 168	bsu	271	Rich medium	1
5	Bacteroides fragilis 638 R	bfg	547	Rich medium.	38
6	Brevundimonas subvibrioides ATCC 15264	bsb	412	Rich medium	37
7	Burkholderia pseudomallei K96243	bps	505	Rich medium	39
8	Burkholderia thailandensis E264	bte	406	Rich medium.	40
9	Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168 = ATCC 700819	cje	228	Rich medium	41
10	Caulobacter crescentus	ccr	480	Rich medium	42
11	Escherichia coli MG1655 II	eco	296	Rich medium	22
12	Francisella novicida U112	ftn	392	Rich medium	43
13	Haemophilus influenzae Rd KW20	hin	642	Rich medium	44
14	Helicobacter pylori 26695	hpy	323	Rich medium	45
15	Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv III	mtu	687	Rich medium	46
16	Mycoplasma genitalium G37	mge	381	Rich medium	7
17	Mycoplasma pulmonis UAB CTIP	mpu	310	Rich medium	47
18	Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 33277	pgn	463	Rich medium	48
19	Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1	pae	336	Rich medium	49
20	CGA009	rpa	522	Rich medium	50
21	Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi Ty2	stt	358	Rich medium	51
22	Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium SL1344	sey	353	Rich medium	51
23	Salmonella typhimurium LT2	stm	230	Rich medium	52
24	Shewanella oneidensis MR-1	son	403	Rich medium	53
25	Sphingomonas wittichii RW1	swi	535	Rich medium	54
26	Staphylococcus aureus NCTC 8325	sao	351	Rich medium	55
27	Streptococcus agalactiae A909	sak	317	Rich medium	56
28	Streptococcus pyogenes NZ131	soz	241	Todd-Hewitt medium	57
29	Streptococcus sanguinis SK36	ssa	218	Rich medium	8
30	Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942	syf	682	Rich medium	58
31	Vibrio cholerae N16961	vch	779	Rich medium	59
Validation datasets
1	Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168	cje	166	Rich medium	12
2	Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv	mtu	461	Rich medium	11
3	Burkholderia cenocepacia H111	bceo	398	Rich medium	60
4	Herbaspirillum seropedicae SmR1	hse	397	Rich medium	61
5	Bacillus subtilis 168	bsu	257	Rich medium	13