Figure 3

Total matches and average number of other genes patented plotted against k-mer size. We searched for matches of a given fragment size (k-mer) of all genes relative to all other genes. We fragmented each Consensus Coding Sequence (CCDS) gene (n = 18,382) into variable lengths (x-axis) and then (a) summed the percentage of genes that would match another CCDS gene (y-axis). (b) We then examined, for each gene, the number of other genes that would match any of its own k-mers. We plotted the distribution of these cross-gene matches (y-axis) across all CCDS genes, with a varying k-mer size (x-axis). Boxplots show the distribution of the data as the median (middle line), 75^th and 25^th percentiles (top and bottom of red boxes, respectively) and any data points beyond the distribution (shown as dots).