Figure 6

The entropy, or information content (solid line, left Y axis) and percent of the sequence coding for proteins (dashed line, right Y axis, log scale) for each human chromosome as well as the full set of coding regions (CCDS). Given the higher entropy rate of coding regions to non-coding regions, we expect a correlation between the two measurements. However, chromosomes 1, 2, 9, 12, and 14 have a lower information content than might be expected for the percent of those chromosomes occupied by protein coding regions. Chromosome 20 appears to have a higher entropy than would be expected given its gene poor content. This may be a signal of extensive non-protein coding, yet functional RNA on chromosome 20.