Can we correlate the number of counts with transcriptional activity in bacterial genome?

[Violetta Florova]

Dear ShortBred developers and users,

How can we interpret the higher number of counts across different strains of the same species?

I assume that normalized number of counts  should reflect the number of DNA copies and the transcriptional activity of this region of bacterial DNA?

I have roughly this variety of counts:

Strain 1 260

Strain 2 - 2500

Strain 3 - 3500

Strain 4 - 4500

Thank you,

Violetta