Overlapping genes and the proteins they encode differ significantly in their sequence composition from non-overlapping genes

• Angelo Pavesi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Angelo Pavesi, Alberto Vianelli, Nicola Chirico

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: angelo.pavesi@unipr.it (AP); alberto.vianelli@uninsubria.it (AV)

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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• Alberto Vianelli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Angelo Pavesi, Alberto Vianelli, Nicola Chirico

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: angelo.pavesi@unipr.it (AP); alberto.vianelli@uninsubria.it (AV)

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5206-3164

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• Nicola Chirico ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Angelo Pavesi, Alberto Vianelli, Nicola Chirico

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

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• Yiming Bao,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Olga Blinkova,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Robert Belshaw,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Biomedical & Healthcare Sciences, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD), Plymouth, United Kingdom

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• Andrew Firth,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Virology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• David Karlin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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