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Additional animated power-law graphs

16 August, 2012 (12:44) | Uncategorized | By: Michael Bell

In the previous post I introduced some animated graphs that were produced to aid the analysis of Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL annotations overtime. Visual inspection of these graphs is beneficial, however the main analytical value comes from the extracted alpha values for each graph – something which I could have included. Many thanks to Colin Gillespie for pointing this out. I have re-created the Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL graphs with the corresponding alpha value now included. These are shown below:

Animation showing swiss-prot over time, with included alpha value.
Make it slower or even slower still…

Animation showing TrEMBL over time, with included alpha value.
Make it slower or even slower still…

Animation showing both Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL over time, with included alpha values.
Make it slower or even slower still…

Our early analysis of Swiss-Prot found an interesting “kink” in the graph, which was identified by visual inspection. This turned out to be copyright statements and provides an interesting talking point, some of which has been discussed previously. It is hard to believe I forgot to include this graph… therefore the graph for Swiss-Prot versions where copyright statements are still included is shown below:

Animation showing Swiss-Prot over time, with copyright included.
Make it slower or even slower still…

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