Gene Cluster Profile Vectors: a method to infer functionally related gene sets by grouping proximity-based gene clusters

Table 1 Clusters of operons from E. coli with a reference genome set of 120 genomes

Identifier for cluster of operon	Operons
Cluster 13	ackA-pta, argT-hisJQMP, artPIQM, *fliAZY, glnHPQ, metNIQ*
Cluster 40	fimAICDFGH, *flgAMN, flhDC, slp-dctR, smtA-mukFEB*
Cluster 43	*flgBCDEFGHIJ* , *flgKL* , *flhBAE* , *fliLMNOPQR* , *motAB-cheAW*
Cluster 163	csgDEFG, *fliDST, yeaGH*

Operons involved in flagellar assembly are marked in bold and identifiers are those in Additional File 1

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