| No. of Genomes | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
no COG | 1276 | 650 | 375 | 215 | 164 | 140 | 168 | 89 |
Information Transfer and Storage | 20 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 31 | 217 |
   Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 108 |
   RNA processing and modification |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |
   Transcription | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 49 |
   Replication, recombination and repair | 11 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 57 |
   Chromatin structure and dynamics |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |
Cellular Processes and signaling | 26 | 17 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 45 | 89 |
   Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning | 4 | 1 |  | 1 |  | 2 | 3 | 4 |
   Defense mechanisms | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 |  | 2 | 1 | 5 |
   Signal transduction mechanisms | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 |
   Cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis | 5 | 7 | 3 |  | 2 | 1 | 11 | 13 |
   Cell motility | 2 | 2 | 3 |  | 2 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
   Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport |  | 1 |  | 1 |  | 1 | 6 | 14 |
   Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, assembly | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 44 |
Metabolism | 26 | 28 | 25 | 26 | 57 | 74 | 94 | 283 |
   Energy production and conversion | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 51 |
   Carbohydrate transport and metabolism | 7 |  | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 17 |
   Amino acid transport and metabolism | 7 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 66 |
   Nucleotide transport and metabolism | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |  | 3 | 3 | 46 |
   Coenzyme transport and metabolism | 2 |  |  |  | 4 | 10 | 24 | 51 |
   Lipid transport and metabolism | 1 | 2 |  | 2 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 16 |
   Inorganic ion transport and metabolism | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 22 |
   Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
Poorly characterized | 18 | 17 | 17 | 20 | 26 | 32 | 52 | 190 |
   General function prediction only | 11 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 22 | 36 | 114 |
   Function unknown | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 76 |