Correlated chromosomal periodicities according to the growth rate and gene expression
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Linking genetic information to population fitness is crucial to understanding living organisms. Despite the abundant knowledge of the genetic contribution to growth, the overall patterns/features connecting genes, their expression, and growth remain unclear. To reveal the quantitative and direct connections, systematic growth assays of single-gene knockout Escherichia coli strains under both rich and poor nutritional conditions were performed; subsequently, the resultant growth rates were associated with the original expression levels of the knockout genes in the parental genome. Comparative analysis of growth and the transcriptome identified not only the nutritionally differentiated fitness cost genes but also a significant correlation between the growth rates of the single-gene knockout strains and the original expression levels of these knockout genes in the parental strain, regardless of the nutritional variation. In addition, the coordinated chromosomal periodicities of the wild-type transcriptome and the growth rates of the strains lacking the corresponding genes were observed. The common six-period periodicity was somehow attributed to the essential genes, although the underlying mechanism remains to be addressed. The correlated chromosomal periodicities associated with the gene expression-growth dataset were highly valuable for bacterial growth prediction and discovering the working principles governing minimal genetic information.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".