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Statistical mechanics of pan-genomes: A peek into the Grand Tinkerer’s workshop
To advance our understanding of how evolution shapes prokaryote pan-genomes we need new concepts and models. Using metabolic reactions, we introduced a sampling approach that disentangles the drivers of pan-genome evolution and provides a mechanistic interpretation for gene frequencies.