Determination of the Core of a Minimal Bacterial Gene Set

By R. Gil, Francisco J. Silva, J. Peretó, Andrés Moya. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2004

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Genome-scale models of metabolism and gene expression extend and refine growth phenotype prediction (2013, background): “%) estimated as essential for a minimal organism (Gil et al, 2004) (Supplementary Table S3B).”
Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world (2008, background): “axis, some values that are important in the context of comparative genomics are roughly mapped: the two peaks of genome size distribution (Figure 2); ‘Van Nimwegen Limit’ (VNL) determined by the ‘cellular bureaucracy’ burden; the minimal genome size of free-living archaea and bacteria (MFL); the min”
Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths (2009, background): “Those that are similar to genes from the minimal gene set defined by [127] are highlighted in boldface.”
BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level (2010, background): “meningitidis isolate should be scanned against Neisseria-specific loci and against more widely applicable loci such as genes for DNA and RNA metabolism or protein folding which are found widely throughout the bacterial domain [61].”